News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]


Then watch it, Ivan... rattlesnakes are blessed creatures that keep vermin in check and only strike to feed or in self-defense.... leave them alone and they leave you alone... rile them up and you're in for a world of pain.

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News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]


He apologized and claimed it was a joke, parodying the way russians behave overseas.... I haven't seen the clip in question and don't know russian well enough to judge whether I thought he was serious or joking....

Travel / What's next from Chopin's Warsaw? [13]

The title of the thread has only one meaning for me.... Who will be the next Polish musical genius? (roughly)

Once you read the message it's clear they wanted to know how to rent a car at or go somewhere else from the airport...

English is obviously not the poster's first (or maybe not second or third) language.... and I'm wondering how they came to phrase the thread title the way they did.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


But anyone joining them would also be making a bunch of lifelong enemies....

I think for almost all the politicians involved the short term financial benefits of joining up with PiS would be outweighed by longterm negative consequences...

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


Where would they get the money?

No one who voted for any other party wants a PiS government and anyone who agrees to work with them (apart from pro-russia konfa) will see their electorate turn _hard_ against them.

Not saying it won't happen but any such government would probably spark the biggest protests since the abortion law change (maybe bigger).

Another theory is that Duda is taking subtle revenge against PiS, a party that has humiliated him more than once in the past....

News / Polish "Rambo" in the forest [42]


There's a category of mentally ill men known as family destroyers (I've seen other names as well). They kill their spouses and kids and then themselves.... supposedly the reasoning is "I can't go on... and they'll never manage without me... I have to take them with me to prevent them from suffering".

This doesn't seem to be that though as family destroyer's usually wait until the family is together....

There was a similar case earlier in the summer with another soldier in the same program, wasn't there? hmmmmmm


Much better preserved than I would have thought.... good thing it was cold water.... any word on whether he jumped, fell or was pushed?

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


Prying PiS away from the trough (koryto) is not going to be easy...

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


How is PiS going to put a coalition together? Hasn't PiS stabbed every party that tried to work with it in the back? Who wants to work with that? How will it win a confidence vote? It's just delaying tactics....

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


I'm not going to say that's not true... but there's no way he has the cojones and willpower to keep a fractious political party (the only kind in Poland) together.

Ziobro, as nasty as he is, could because he's ruthless and doesn't care if people hate him. Duda is a people pleaser which is why he failed so much as president.

News / Polish "Rambo" in the forest [42]

And the police have found a body (in the same reservoir where a searcher perished earlier) that they are pretty sure is Borys....

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

Apparently Duda has decided on which side he'll task with forming a government.... the choice is between

PiS = largest single party but doesn't have a majority or a way of achieving a majority since every other party says they will not join a coalition with them and buying off enough members to form a majority is unrealistic....

Opposition coalition (has a majority but the three/four member coalition could be fragile as its united mainly in opposition to PiS (mis)rule.

Who will Duda pick?

News / Polish "Rambo" in the forest [42]

Last I heard police had narrowed the search to a very small area and are seriously thinking he's dead....

I need to know more about police talk in Polish and what it really means, for example in the US if police refer to a killing as 'an isolated incident' what it really means is they think they know who did it (usually a family member).

If he's dead the main question would be accident or suicide (I'd go for the latter....).

News / Time to clean the swamp - dePiSification of Poland [324]


Link? Cause that guy is trippin' balls....

One of the most interesting elements of the election was PiS losing its crypto voters (people who voted for PiS but didn't want to admit to doing so publicly)...

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

Excellent article about the covid response and iatrogenic class warfare (and parallels with the Indian caste system)

thesovereignmind.substack.com/p/iatrogenic-shudras-the-birth-of-covid

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


To avoid crowding in tourist areas?

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


It's a reference made by a German politician during the arrival of the Merkeljugend in 2015 referring to the arrivals as 'our doctors and engineers in the future'.... meanwhile on planet earth only about 50% of them have had any paid employement.... 8 years later!

reality 1 - idealism - 0

News / Polish "Rambo" in the forest [42]


Okay a late 'surprise' kid... sorry I missed the other sons earlier.


I don't like dachshunds in general (yappy nasty things) but killing one is too much....

News / Polish "Rambo" in the forest [42]


So most likely mental illness (exacerbated by drug use????) 44 is very old for the onset of schizophrenia... so I'm guessing something else.....

Also, while I'm here, 44 minus 6 = 38.... isn't that pretty old for a first time father in Poland? I know things change but... has the onset of having kids increased that much?

Anyhoo, I'm still thinking he's dead or not in Poland.

Is it possible to add the death of the diver to his charges if he is found alive?

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


Looks like some sort of filled dumpling... a Polish version of won ton soup?

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]


I'd say rather that Christians renamed old holidays and modified them just enough to pass as Christian in origin.

As I said, no other major religion can assimilate previous religious practices the way Christianity can (nb I'm not a Christian but do admire the faith's versatility and adaptability).

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]


holidays... Christmas seems to be three separate pagan holidays, Saturnalia (from Rome), Yule (northern germanics) and Kolada (Slavic)

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]


The friend lived there decades ago..... the answer is... in Europe the summer solstice marks the transition from spring to summer which is just not nearly as important the transitions from summer to fall (all saints' day) fall to winter (Christmas/New Years) and winter to spring (Easter).

Bolivia is below the equator so the summer solstice is the beginning of their winter/cold season so it's more important.

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]


So do I, why isn't it as important as the other three holidays in Europe (and why is it very important in Bolivia)?

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]

A clue... a friend lived in Boliwia for a few years and it's extremely important there, one of the bigger holidays in the calendar.

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]


I hear you.... I like American Halloween just fine (favorite holiday as a child) but I can think of no good reason to export it anywhere.... I'm kind of glad that it's never really caught on in Poland.


So... why isn't St John's night (Summer Solstice) as important?

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]


Samhain in particular... fall is when the harvest ends and the earth symbolically 'dies'.... it's when animals are slaughtered for the upcoming cold season.... it's natural that it became associated with death.

Christianity simply harnassed those natural ideas and renamed them and directed them toward christian aims...

One of the reasons Christianity is the largest religion on the planet is that it's easily the most adaptable among the major religions.

Neither Islam or Judaism or Buddhism or Hinduism or Confucianism has been able to incoporate other religious traditions as well.

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]


pagan origins... christianity didn't try to stamp out old practices it simply renamed and incorporated them... very healthy

and why is St. John's Night less important than the other three (except in the southern hemisphere)?

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]


Halloween, Christmas and Easter are pagan holidays repainted in Christian colors. Nothing wrong with that.

(I'm not sure about St. Johns.... can you guess why it's less important than the other three?)

News / Polish "Rambo" in the forest [42]


I'm sure she is, what I meant there's been no mention of their relationship before he snapped.... had things been okay? deteriorating? how had she been reacting to his decline?


When a parent kills a child you look at all possible motives... and killings over being cuckolded are not unheard of.... the more common response is losing interest in the child but you never know what a crazy person will do.

It sounds like he'd been seriously unwell for a long time and people ignored it... I fault his superiors in the military for not recognizing his problems earlier and doing something about it.

News / Polish "Rambo" in the forest [42]

My first thoughts.... nothing about the mother (very, very weird).

Second thoughts.... I think he's most likely out of the country or dead (suicide).

That's a usual MO for men who kill family members (esp children).

Was it caused by the onset of schizophrenia (he seems a little old for that, but... generally the signs are there)

Was it caused by the discovery of infidelity ("son" wasn't "his")? A disproportionate extreme response but again within the parameters.