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

Nobody guessed my riddles so now let me explain them:


Usually said to your opponent when dealing roughly with them without going into details.


It means a refusal to do what other people want/expect you to. Even when requests are involved. The image assigned to the idiom features a bare ass shown to others while you are in bending position.


In direct translation dawać radę means gives advice but as an idiom - to manage to do sth.


This can wait a little. :):):)

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


The scandal was PiS candidate`s close contacts with neo nazists, kidnappers, drug dealers and pimps.

Quite an interesting report surfaced two days ago - it had been written for internal use in PiS party but leaked to the media. All the candidate`s suspicious activities are described in it. Yet, Chairman Kaczyński nominated him. Strange.

PiS` rivals on the political stage mock that dubious candidacy saying:

This alone should mean that not the report, but the candidate should end up in the dustbin of history - he said.
According to him, "the point is that we don't wake up in a Poland where the day after the president's election three buses will arrive: one with pimps, another with people who sold drugs, and the third with PiS politicians, and they will all want to be pardoned, because that's what it comes down to ."

I find it so amassing that apart from being thieves and frauds, PiS politicians add drugs, pimping and kidnapping to their favourite activities.

Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [229]


I earnestly sympathise with those Germans he harmed. Let them lock him up for the time long enough to recover from his mental problems.

Life / Wish to settle down, which country to choose - Poland or Russia? [126]

Can Poles/Polesses take to Russians who are so different when it comes to character?? Poles/Polesses are optimistic people who strongly believe they are powerful and determined enough to successfully change the reality around them, especially when they don`t accept it. Polish risings are a good example.
While Russians are natural born pessimists and they never believe they can have even a minor impact on anything. It is called Russian fatalism - let`s leave it like that coz all efforts to improve the situation are futile in a country like Russia.

A nice interview with a Russian dissident who comments on Putin and his war and Russians who have been either bought or intimidated by the regime so they will never rise.

onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/wlasnie-podpisales-umowe-z-diablem-jak-putin-znalazl-sposob-na-zwyklych-rosjan/t07p5dx,79cfc278

First of all, Russians are not in the habit of rebelling. Since the revolution of 1917 and then 1991, the authorities have done a lot to teach Russians not to rebel. We have a powerful police force and super-powerful special services penetrating every sphere of social and religious life. Every religious organization or political group is infiltrated by provocateurs and informers who denounce participants in even the slightest attempt at a conspiracy. They frame their own colleagues, denounce them, and then they are either imprisoned or, in many cases, secretly killed.

Nobody trusts anyone, so you can't even conspire, because there is always a fear that your co-conspirator will betray you, frame you, and report you to the special services. Another thing is that people believe that it will do no good. That nothing will be effective. Thus, we have a situation in which no one dares to do anything. Everyone falls into a paranoia of fear, and on the other hand, every action seems futile and useless. Who will dare to oppose it?

Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]


I have been thinking of it for a few days coz sth seemed wrong in my concept but I couldn`t realise what exactly. The Irish went to church and met their neighbours etc there like us, yet they also sent cards as Atch claims.

Eventually I found out why cards aren`t so popular here - we had a long break in true Christmas cards availability during communism. They weren`t produced by state enterprises and if some were, they contained the neutral motives of Santa Claus etc.
Before WW2 cards had been very popular.


But the Irish are similar to Poles/Polesses, yet they sent their cards. It must be this communist heritage.

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

What do you mean when you comment on sb/sth:linen press???

News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [113]

It is late and I need to go to my Jap su wres matt.

Can you summarise your long post in 3 sentences??? I have had enough of that drivel before. ?):):0

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


If you asked for a specific item, here you are:
ceneo.pl/172521183?fto=540831785&utm_source=google_css&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=css

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


God aka Goddess imposed on women incessant responsibilities because of that Forbidden Fruit mistake. Women endured it for millenia and never complained. But the absolution time has come at last! Women are gaining their rights and males can`t stop it. And true men support women`s cause.

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


It is a Chinese made camera for average budget because I am mean aka frugal and refuse to pay through my nose for gadgets which I don`t really need. :):):):):):)
But I am perfectly satisfied with the quality of the photos and videos it takes. It was a good decision to choose that one - I had read dozens of comments by the buyers of various trap cameras.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


And they are perfectly entitled to being so!!! After centuries.... no, after millenia of being treated low by males, now it is is the time they stand up and be/do who/what they wish at last!!!
Fingers crossed!!!
Don`t blame me for my feminist penchant coz I won`t change. Ha!!!

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Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


It is on there all the time and I check the records every 2-3 days. The rat is missing. The cat, too. The cob disappears in the fog. Mice frolic at will.
Christie mystery, sort of. I don`t know what to think about it. :):):)

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

Exactly!! And then women haters would whine about uncaring mothers ...............

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [980]

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News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [113]


You mean those astounding patriots of Poland??? I agree. We need more of them. If there were more like them aka Mr Honourable Prime Minister Reverend Donald Holy Tusk, Poland would have never fallen like she did a few times in history.

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [980]

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News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


It seems that the negative comments referred not so much to her breast feeding but to wearing full make up in the act. Commenters suggested that a typical Polish mother doesn`t have time to take care of herself while taking care of the baby so her claims she always looked like that while breastfeeding were false!!!!

It only shows that Polish males have a long way to go to reach the expectations of their female partners.

If Polish males don`t come to their senses at last, Poland will have to invite millions of immigrants to sustain the nation. Amasing!!!!

Polo, what do you suggest Poles/Polesses should do about it???

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News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


Polish women don`t care if it is universal or not. They only want to enjoy their rights. Simple.


Sad but true. Years ago I volunteered for the disabled kid family group in our local church. There were about 20 families who we cared for. I remember it like today that I was struck with the view of only one male aka father aka husband who stuck to his wife as well as to his completely incapacitated daughter on the wheelchair. All other families consisted of the mother and her disabled teenage/adult child.
PS. I still keep in touch with my "assigned" family. Two disabled sons have died and it is the mother who we regularly invite to spend time with us and I go to her place to do minor repairs.

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

Certain actress has published a photo of her breast feeding the baby. Some comments were negative. Strange.
A few days ago, Zofia Zborowska posted a rather bold photo on her Instagram. The actress decided to show her followers how she feeds her youngest daughter while revealing a bit of her body. Unfortunately, the photo did not meet with a warm response from Internet users. A real storm broke out in the comments under the post! It did not take long for Zborowska to respond... The star did not mince her words!

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News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [113]


I agree on one condition - Germans have to learn Polish!!!!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


If giving custody was a solution to the problem, then 90% would drop to 10%. But it won`t coz most "fathers" who refuse to pay aren`t interested in it.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


Sorry, the statistics is merciless - it is males who owe 90% child support to mothers of their kids.

That is why women expect the abortion law to be changed. And it will happen next year when a decent President is elected. I am going to vote for him having the fate of Polish women in mind.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Polish proverb says: Strike the table and the scissors will clank! hahaha


Yes, it was you, Polo. You remember that exchange, I see. :):):)

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


Are you trying to imply some Freudian theories are involved here???
Hmm, the rat is real, I didn`t imagine it.

How would you interpret its existence in my life??? ):):)

BTW, it is gone for good. Only mice have remained. And I still don`t know what grabbed those cobs.

Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]


Yes, interesting. I wonder why it didn`t work in Poland. Perhaps Poles and Polesses didn`t need to give their neighbours cards coz they all would meet in the local church or on the way to or back from it anyway. Such a meeting sufficed to wish sb nice Christmas.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Two years ago I argued for abortion claiming that more and more women are left by their partners and have to raise the kid/kids on their own. One poster suggested that child support money solves the problem. I laughed at it, quoting the statistics.

Which haven`t improved since then. They are even worse. And the state doesn`t know how to deal with the issue.

The mountain of debts that almost no one in Poland wants to pursue has already reached almost PLN 16 billion. As many as 94% of child support debtors are men, who already owe PLN 15 billion. The number of the youngest debtors is growing rapidly.

That is why I still believe women need to have a choice.

Life / Is Polish church involved in politics too much? [137]


It is much much worse, believe me. At least Joker and his pack don`t deal with pedophilia. While black gangsters regularly do.

Language / Polish Pet Names For A Lover? [35]


Yesterday while driving I heard that old song by Hanna Banaszak. I remember it well from 1970s. She bids farewell to her ex lover addressing him as:

Farewell, misiu - teddy bear!
kotku - kitty!
świnko - piggy!
gapciu - gawker!

Paradoxically, despite those pet addresses on him, she warns him she won`t be his żabcia - froggie.

youtu.be/ht3twm4koH0

Feedback / "Ignore" option for certain posters [69]

Tomorrow is 1st Dec which means Christmas is close. According to old Polish traditions, I suspend being rude to forum troublemakers. No darlings or other nasties.
However, if you provoke me too much, I will address you as bb aka bad boy. Or bad being coz creature slur is also excluded. :):)

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

Let them. Christmas`s coming so anybody is welcome. :):)