Life / What should I get for a gift for somebody who's never visited Poland? [59]

@Bobko
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptasie_mleczko

Seems like it according to wiki

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]

@Lenka
I didn't draw any conclusions, I was only calculating the probability. It seems more negative then positive until convinced otherwise.

I do not set my opinion of people in stone, nor is it unchangeable. No matter how judgemental you might think I am.

I don't perceive as informing on someone, especially somebody close or related to hostile/enemy authorities as something positive, which seems you or closest family has done or does or won't mind doing if your opposing the statement I made so much.

And no, I am not judging right now. I am giving you ground to either prove my point or show it being wrong

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]

@Lenka
True, but it has such high probability that more often then not. I would be surprised if same mentality/behaviour does not follow through. Especially among more known families or reputation based one's.

Unknown families or those that has no structure/framework are 100% lotteries

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]

@Cargo pants
Cause certain traits go down from parent to child, if parents were verbally abusive towards their kid (with the thought of making them stronger) it will continue to the next kid, and so on cause they don't any other way of raising a child except how their own parents did it to them.

Me myself, I was quite lucky as past two generations have been a lot milder. Thing I scared of is that I could be a lot harsher parent to my children if I ever have them. My only comfort is it that my dog seem to like me and adore me, and misses me if I am not around. Still doesn't give me full certainty yet

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]

@call1n
If anybody is insulting, it would be you by speaking Polish

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]

@jon357
Please don't put modern day perspective of nationalities against me. You should know fairly well that religion was far more important and loyalty to family and royal family then ideologies.

Most commoners, farmers alike couldn't be bothered with "king's and dukes" plays, games and warfare. Except the possibility of getting sacked

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]

@call1n
In which half of them lived in Poland throughout centuries under the protection of Poland, I would recommend to think more through your own statements.

Many people think they are good or "real" Christians by being anti-Jewish or antisemitic, just to show or be confident in being anti-Pharaseeic.

But, remember... By doing so one starts to resemble more that of pagan Roman soldiers who nailed Jesus Christ to the cross.

Crimes during holocaust was also an act against Poland in every way, due to it happening against the will of the Polish people, elite and Polish state in most cases on Polish land, despite very problematic relations.

So ye tread likely, even tho a shepherd dog has his owner, sheep and goats to protect and take care of, either he likes goats or not. Will protect them, neglecting that task only shows lack of patriotism or lack of knowledge in Polish matters, which again leads to the thinking of somebody being an imposter.

Living long away from Poland can lead to lack of that perspective due to being connected more with mentality of foreign cultures and their guilt, even tho there are guilty actions done by a minority of Polish speakers, it's far more the shame of the situation happening in the first place by not being able to stop it from happening.

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

@Alien
Happens when pupils are not disciplined by their parents, a pupils goes on the nerve of the teacher and it boils over or when the teacher is too strict and tyrannical.

Either way, it is hard to practice idealism among troubled children (and grown ups).

One should be prepared and ready to hit, but seclude it to sports/physical activities. Not to be used as a form of punishment unless there is no way out, due to constant disrespect. Borders have to be made, otherwise a person will go out in the world thinking they are allowed to do anything and disregards other people and their being.

Especially of possibility of encountering criminal environment or ending up in prison. Schools have a responsibility as not to push pupils in that direction

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

@Miloslaw
You got to understand that certain people have little power with their words, as they don't put much value to it. As a tool to humour or lessen a blow or help somebody with their feelings. Also different mentality with regards to feelings, some people utter and use words as hate, hating when they merely despise or dislike something (who loves to overdramatize) and think people understand that considering the context of the conversation, what kind of real mood they really are in as to make it interesting and fun (other people with principles find fun and enjoyment elsewhere and can easily find such behaviour not only anouying but, disturbing. Especially those considering words more sacred and holy)

So when you read words like hatred, you might start imagening a bloodthirsty SS-Man wanting to destroy everything around you and murdering everyone, yet you see a happy but, moody teacher writing stuff on the internet and get frustrated and anoyed.

Yet he sees a guy suddenly bursting out over not a very big deal. Words have different meaning to different people due to different perspective, which is why conflict happends. More easily over the internet due to lack of body language

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

@Lenka
I also have read Harry Potter, didn't make me start jumping in to walls to enter a school either

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

@pawian
Freedom comes only from Jesus Christ, you are delusional pawian

Po polsku / Piszę po polsku - ludzie zmieniają się pod wpływem pieniędzy [34]

@Uglywoman
Zależy od osoby, jedni bardzo chętnie podzielą się każdym kawałkiem chleba będąc biednym bo ma taką samą sytuacje potrzebę i potrzebuje i chce by inni mu też dawali kiedy niema (dosyć ludzkie)

Ale też jak zaczyna człowiek być bogaty, to mniej się z tym dzieli, bo albo chce odciąć się od dawnej grupy, albo nie chce wrócić do biedy i patrzy ostrożnie na każde wydatki lub jest draniem który chce zatrzymywać każdy pieniądz tylko dla siebie bo nie ufa innym/nie lubi ludzi i jest amoralny itd.

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

@TakToJaKobieta
To me (as a man), a right to abort your own kid would be the same for a man to have the right to rape as he pleases (mating selection being in his favour, having more control and be the deciding factor to a larger degree)

Which is ridicules, even tho murder is obviously worse then wish/will/list to control their own situation. One cannot fully control reality around oneself, every human being is fairly limited. Presidents as well

For a women (as it correlates with the change of her physical body, by giving birth) it is a dramatic life changing event, which also can decrease her mating options, lifespan but possibly also her life as shown in the article.

Obvious solution to prevent such actions in the future would be to have a man protecting the women from such things happening (which is the norm), a brother, father, cousin, close friend or husband.

Yet I understand that some families are so f***ed up that even close family members rape their own daughters. Those are extremely special cases, and called exceptions. Which again should not cause the general public to change their ways cause of it, as it can lead to major negative changes at large.

To me personally I would priority the women's spiritual needs and morality before anything else. Which very often comes ignored or not understood by unbelievers or materialists in such matters.

So yeah, I am pro-life and have a rather harsh, radical with strong convictions stance on this.

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Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]

@Bobko
Well depends, as long as any Pole stands away from becoming dark. Then most traits can apply as one of the collective traits are being different from one another. So one can easily claim a lot depending on ones own experiences and easily apply other traits that are more profesional specific or class.

In contact with Polish middle class one can easily think Poles prefer beer/wine yet in contact with lower class one can think most Poles prefer vodka. Since most Poles knows about this, a ignorant foreigner automatically informs that with which Polish crowd the person hangs out with and if it's a risk or not to be associated with that person.

Same applies to Russia every time something negative happends (then most Poles want to distance themselves)

Few odd exceptions could had been Gorbachev who was "praised" with a song by famous oppositionist artist singing him a song called "Wieje wiosna z wschodu"

I recommend it

History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

@Lyzko
No wonder the Germans went all crazy!

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]

@Novichok
You can convince a Czech of such things, unless you want Poles to stop being Polish. Just because you choose it. Doesn't mean others have to if anything you told so far is remotely true

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]

@Novichok
Most of the NKVD were withdrawn out of PRL past 1953 for obvious reasons... Especially after 1956, what's next you gonna state? That you don't how the Polish flag looks like?

You taking me for an idiot?

Besides you are ignoring the fact of why the uprising broke out, it was due to a ultimatum from the Germans. All grown adult men had to show up to start building barricades and fortifications for the Germans front lines within Warsaw.

It was either get excecuted, arrested on their own or transported to concentration camps, run away en mass or resist.

Men of Warsaw chose to resist, despite the Home Army leaderships will to delay.

Which seems to blurr your understanding of it due to the Polish resistance leadership known intentions of the Soviets, any idiot knew what the Soviet Union was about after experiencing it first hand. Many of the Polish officers in the Polish resistance had access to intelligence reports from war of 1920 and what was happening in eastern Poland under Soviet occupation. Every Polish leader knew what was coming, and most Poles could fairly and easily guess it.

It was a mouse trapped in a corner, that tried to jump at a cat and got hit by it's paws.

Yet you seem to imply the mouse should just get eaten or something. It was a "sytuacja bez wyjścia"

Law / I am pregnant but the father is now ghosting me [17]

@Cargo pants
Well she would need to have solid evidence and convincing story, otherwise she might experience the wrath and wroth of Polish mother-in-law or the guys wife if such a situation would happen. Most Polish women should be perfectly aware of such risks, so frauds are rather quite the risk in such circumstances.

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]

@Novichok
I have no reason to respect nor like an army that not only looked with indifference to the massacres happening in Warsaw, in which you personally claim to have experienced.

Nor a army supporting the policies of a state by plundering and burning my family's estate despite locals salvaging what possibly they could and returning it back to the family. Nor it's wickedness in plunder and rape performed towards my brothers and sisters of faith and social class because of their own problems with Boyars in Russia.

(I also change keyboard language on my Iphone and type rather fast so capital letters change very often depending on language settings mind you)

You deliberately also ignore the red armies pleads on radio's and leaflets that were dropped in Warsaw before the uprising to rise up against the Germans. So no, don't tell me they were simply "having" to go through Poland to reach Germany.

You probably also ignorant of the fact there were far more NKVD divisions operating in post-ww2 Poland then eastern Germany.

Traitor

History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

@Lyzko
Or knowing Polish realities and how politics worked in the Polish second republic and doesn't have to second guess wether or not there was "hidden antisemitic agenda" going on.

If there were, Poland would had signed with Hitler long time ago and worked on invading the Soviet Union since the get-go. Which any person with enough historical knowledge knows that did not happen, but also how ridiculously laughable the possibility was/is

It's like accusing German elites of trying to ban beer in Germany due to some of it's members being anti-alcoholics. Give me a break

Law / I am pregnant but the father is now ghosting me [17]

@Lyzko
"Ghosting" is the sudden and unexpected cutting off comunication with the other person, leaving the impression of having been turned in to a ghost. Left without a trace of existing anymore.

A person mainly or only communicating via "Snapchat" then blocking the other person. Then if the person is able to reach him by other means, continues to block her and shows no signs or willingness to meet again

News / Jacek Kurski, the new chairman of TVP (Telewizja Polska) [37]

@cms neuf
Depends if they want to cover it up, or wants to send a message.

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]

@Novichok
Well I can tell you one thing, I come from an family of pedantic people but, you take the cake! If you think I am ignorant about ww2, history or Russia in general and that I hate Russia/Russians

Then you can only blame yourself about such delusions! Have a good day! You clearly need it!

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]

@Novichok
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Stalingrad was part of the Soviet Union, it's army was the red army. So yes, they were liberated by their own a.K.a as the red army and other military branches that were part of the military operation you nitpicking quarrelsome bothering internet person

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]

@pawian
Because he is appealing to the emotional side with his arguments, many far right Germans (and others for that matter) have a beef with the elites of the west (and who they think have power/most influence behind the scenes) therefore it is rooted in fear, paranoia and huge doses of emotional reactions and mistrust.

What many forget is that western allies (especially France and U.K) tried their best as not to have a air form of warfare based on terror, which was proven by dropping leaflets in 1939 over Germany. A very subtle show of what would happen if they were exchanged with bombs as to stop any further aggression. That signal was not taken in to account AND ignored.

Later on after the London blitz, I am honestly surprised that any German cries over spilt milk when seeing themselves as the victims of the burning of Dresden. Germans were asking for it every step of the way after ruining Warsaw and bombing England as long as it was possible (most knowingly London)

It all originated from evil doctrines and thinking of Nazi Germany, so one has to have a few screws loose to think that those doctrines and way of thinking got anything to do with Democracy and Freedom.

People should read more about the word: "precedence"

If it is commonly agreed to not do a certain action (not because it's not possible, but because it is possible but too destructive for all parties involved), then first one to break it gets the hardest hit as not to be repeated again.

In similar fashion, Nazi Germany was the most brutal and harshest towards Poland for being first and most opposing to Nazi German rule and expansion, in their mind it created a precedence of opposition to their authoritarian regime, which made others more eager and willing to oppose them.

Similar to how Lukashenko reacted when Poland refused his tactics of sending immigrants over the border of Poland, it created a precedence to oppose dictators like Lukashenko. Which made him fear for his life, cause if it came out (just like with Maidan) that opposing a dictator is not only an option but, an successful one with enough strength. Then he CAN be toppled, the opening of the possibility itself terrifies them. Rightfully so

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]

@Novichok
In that context, Stalingrad was liberated by their own people. Not by another hostile force pretending to be helpful formally.

It seems to me you only apply "formal realities" to Poland cause it suits you or trying to be obnoxious to other users cause you know they will get pissed off at you. Why do you try to provoke constantly? Do you want people to hate you or something?

Hate is a self-destructive force, you should abandon your ways.

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]

@Novichok
"The act of removing or killing people who want to kill you" is not liberation but, defending yourself. Red army defended Poles from being massacred, inprisoned or opressed from the Germans.

However it was very temperory due to the fact that the communist authorities did similar things, just not in plain sight and more indirectly with a more subtle approach. All their talk of liberating was the communist talk about "liberating" workers from the authority of capitalists, priests, aristocracy and everyone they deemed burgouise. (Which they happily branded anyone opposing them, wether it was correct or not)

So yeah, again please read a dictionary!

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]

@GefreiterKania
Just because Prussia had better planners and Austria had to reshape herself, does not mean it would been very great in a fully Austria controlled Poland, without competition with Prussia/Russia it could possibly been a lot more harsher to be honest.

I have a few times wondered if Poland was supposed to die then be reborn only as another miracle and show of Gods grace to the entire world (try creating a similar scenario/simulation with any other nation and one quickly finds out the probability of it all)

Outcome of Stalingrad was a positive outcome to the entire world, cause we all know what would happen if Nazi Germany ruled most of Europe/Asia/Africa.

It wouldn't be restricted to labour camps and death camps during ww2, but more and possibly more sinister and dreadful technology being used.

I only have to shiver if I start to think what they could do with mass spraying drones on a large scale with acids or sirup gasses, trying to kill most of the worlds population to only have "Aryan" kind

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]

@GefreiterKania
What's so surprising, enemies of Poland won't be in Poland's interest. If Russians had 100% free hands and No repercussions they would gladly Russianize in similar manner everywhere.

One only had to play games like DayZ to understand human mentality amongst most people, left alone to their own devices most people prefer to shoot first rather then ask questions.

Honor is not to be expected from extremists, especially when earlier only shown opportunistic tendencies.

Thinking that one of the sides is good is a logical fallacy due to the proven fact of both people wanting to eliminate Poland from the map, verbally, culturally or later on even fysically.

Only reason most Poles are more positive towards Austria is due to Austria being now the weakest, one has to remember it was among the strongest and most harsh in the beginning and initiator of starting to partition Poland by her actions. (A Catholic nation non-the less)

Germany now can be viewed positively due to being weak at the moment (compared to earlier history)

We should all be perfectly aware what kind of groups in Germany did and thought they could allow themselves to do when being in position of power. All the culture and traditions honed for those that were the strongest and most influential has been ripped off by the French Revolution.

Cards were changed, playbooks and even rules of war.

I would advice not to succumb to this logical argument, due to one fact. God stands beside us, few others have.