History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


no it wasn't a "objazdowe kino" - it was a permanent establishment alright - there were thousands of such places in Poland - the vast majority are gone now (including the one in the village I lived) - now focus: there were probably like a couple of dozen physical copies of movies in circulation around the country and thousands of those small town/gmina village cinemas - do your math

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


of course, pawian, 'cause you know better what I saw and when :P

i lived in a small place and films were reaching it much later than the cities - i live in an even smaller place, now; and I don't go to the movies and don't watch that much TV - but I love watching internet movie critics who lambaste the recent streak of garbage that pretend to be movies issued by the big entertainment corporations in the name of Diversity Equity and Inclusivity

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


well, I saw the first Star Wars movie in Polish cinema when I was like 7 or 8 in the early 80's

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [1019]


yeah, it's like you have never heard that attempts at leaving those people in "countries they claim to come from" are "unsuccesful" for the most part

Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]


it wasn't "several years back" - the campaing was in the late 90's - domestic violence was a taboo topic back then for the most part - things were exacebrated by the general economic crisis which even resulted in police often ignoring phone calls from victims of domestic violence (I have experienced it first hand on a couple of occasions) - things have changed a great deal since then in this area (police response to reports of domestic violence and generally the law concerning domestic violence)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


żywot was the name for the belly not specifically for wątroba, as far as I know (as in "i błogosławiony owoc żywota twojego, Jezus" - of course unless you think Jesus was the fruit of Mary's liver)

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [1019]


great line

Travel / Best way transport Belgium - poland [5]


Kraków is only about 100 km (in a straight line) from Zakopane (it is a mountainous terrain though so it's about 2 hours drive or a 2 hour jouney on a express train)

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [1019]

@pawian
rp.pl/polityka/art18894091-unijny-komisarz-chcemy-by-kary-wywarly-na-polski-rzad-presje

Didier Reynders has a Flemmish surname (I have never seen Reynders as a first name) but he comes from the French speaking (Waloon) Belgium

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [1019]


because you have a brain and an attention span of a baboon?

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [1019]

Merged:

A Belgian eurocrat, former European Commissioner for Justice accused of money laundering

Didier Reynders, former (as recent as a week ago) European Commissioner for Justice, who was very vocal in criticizing Poland's PiS government's judiciary reforms faces charges of money laundering

msn.com/en-gb/news/world/eu-former-justice-minister-under-investigation-for-money-laundering/ar-AA1vfWRP?ocid=BingNewsSerp

News / The quality of Polish media coverage [54]


I understand Russia sees itself as a global player, but Poland doesn't


once all Polish mainstream media were let's call it liberal (though it is not a good word in my opinion) - opposing media arose very slowly until 2015 when the state-owned media became a mouthpiece of the PiS government - since they (the public media in the times of PiS) brought up a lot of topics the mainstream media (of which public broadcasters had been previously a part) there arose the demand for "non-liberal" media in Poland which culminated roughly a year ago in the surge of the popularity of TVRepublika and WPolsce television after the current ruling coalition illegally took hold of the public broadcasters


the biggest "serious" daily newspapers in Poland sell less than 50 thousand copies throughout the country (don't know about their internet service subscriptions) - for example before PiS came to power in 2015 Gazeta Wyborcza (the main "liberal" title) mainly lived off advertisments ordered by the state or state owned companies and subscription from state insitutions - most people in Poland who don't want to watch TV (and that is lots and lots of people) look for news in the internet

thing is Poles (me included) are poor or at least have the poor people mindset when it comes to consuming media - so it's all the internets now

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


it's tricky unless you know the language :P

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


I consider myself a hardline PiS voter but if I knew Marek Jakubiak would get to the second round of voting I would vote for him

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


he's not a serious candidate mostly because his chances to get elected are next to nil

News / Mister President Andrzej Duda - Best Poland could get. [96]


yeah, the population is getting bigger and bigger: leider in a decade or two the country will be called Germanistan

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [733]


how do you know? (maybe he didn't - I haven't read anything on the subject)

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]


Putin has a lot of to lose - mainly his face/popularity among his hmm.. subjects - he needs to win this war i.e. to bring home territorial gains and other favourable outcomes (for examples Ukraine not being able to join NATO) - Zelensky's goals are the opposite and I doubt if he dreams of being Ukraine's president for life (like Putin does in Russia)

Life / Polish patriotic music! [44]


Krzyżak is from the Polish word for Cross (which is krzyż) - they were called so because they wore white clothes (tunics?) with a black cross on their chests

and no krzyżak doesne't mean crusader knight - crusader knight is called krzyżowiec in Poland

Language / Dog Commands in Polish [49]

for some time now I try to speak to my dog in basic forms but it is in no way the norm among Polish dog owners - the thing it is often the case that inflected forms of Polish words (at least nouns) are not that removed from the basic form so the dogs seem to figure out you talk about the same thing (it is especially true with the dog's name)

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [733]


do you find it strange after what PO politicians were saying about him (including Tusk himself) - I don't

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [733]


this is the testament to how Europe is willing and/or able to defend itself

Edit: to put things in perspective the European Commission (the government of the EU of sorts) refused to exclude Polish defence spending from the budget deficit which resulted in declaring Poland under the "procedure of excessive deficit"

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [733]


I commend you for thinking for yourself :)

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [733]


Duda doesn't need permission from anyone and Ursula is the last person he cares about

Language / Dog Commands in Polish [49]


I think these translations are useless for English speakers who don't know the rules of Polish pronunciation

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [733]


yeah, America will thrash Germany again like it had already done twice in the last century :P

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]

I understand it is completely off-topic, now - but I honestly thought fava beans is some American borrowing from some Latin American speech - and from what you say I gather it's a British word

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [231]

he died in Serbia fighting the Ottomans (look up the Battle of Golubac)

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]


yes, indeed - I don't think it has ever been actually called faba bean in English - think it's always fava bean - my mistake

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]


that's "na zielonej łące" most probably (Polish ł is the same sound as English w)