Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [59]


ok, you win - I forgot all about them, indeed

and hijab is also for males? never would have thought

Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [59]


I can only think of abstaining from meats on certain days - what more are there according to you?

Off-Topic / Is this English phrase correct? [22]


I have just read on etymonline.com (a website that explains etymologies of words) that "center" is older and was used by Shakespeare

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

@Bobko
my svoeekh nye brasayem - vpyeryod!!!

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [314]

no it wasn't like that at all - people deliberately kept bottle tops to give to the charities - even schools sometimes asked pupils to bring bottle tops when they were involved in some kind of charities or to raise funds for their own projects - what I believe it was much more probable that plastic bottle tops would go to waste if they were binned than when people gathered them and then gave them to charities etc

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [314]


no there wasn't - they weren't collecting them from the streets and sidewalks - they had special containers were people threw the bottle tops

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [314]


in Poland there was a number of charities that collected (asked people to collect) plastic bottle tops which were later sold for profit for recycling - since it is illegal now to dispose of the bottles without the tops they are pretty screwed

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

yeah - and there are also opposing intrests - German politicians for example think that using coal is bad and they impose some heavy burdens on coal use through their influence on the EU - at the same time Polish energy generation is based mostly on coal - also German along other European politicians thought up that oil based fuels are bad too and we should all in the EU abandon oil based fuel vehicles in 2035 - explain that to a Polish pensioner in provincial Poland who drives a 20 year old Fiat or Skoda that it would be so much better for them to buy 50 000 PLN electric vehicle whose batteries will last maximum 10 years instead of replacing their old Fiat/Skoda with some used Opel or Volkswagen that would set them back 5 to 8 thousand PLN

or maybe let's take into account that Germans would love to share with us some burden sorry privilege of hosting hundreds of thousands of "refugees" they welcomed so eagerly in 2015 and 2016 - and make us pay them the same or similar social handouts they receive in Germany in order for the said refugees not to turn back to Germany

let's not forget about the fact that some German politicians don't really like the idea of Poland building a nuclear plant in Pomorze

Travel / Best route for driving Berlin to Leszno, Krakow, and Vilnius [12]


in my opinion this is a very good idea it's all motorways/Autobahn between these cities - the best way to drive from Kraków to Leszno would be heading back to Wrocław on a motorway and then heading north on a similar highway to Leszno - from Leszno to Berlin I would go north to Poznań to get on a motorway/Autobahn that will take you straight to Berlin

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


I never stated that - I only said what I thought should be obvious to an outside objective observer

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


it is also worth mentioning that Germany started really helping Ukraine (outside of rhetorics) only a long moment after it became clear that Ukrainians repulsed the initial strike - so yeah it's not like they were not willing to maintain good relations with Putin's Russia meaning business-as-usual attitude even at the cost of Ukraine (compare that to the actions of the US government who started assisting Ukraine with millitary equipment, financial aid and intelligence (famous Javelin anti-armour missiles for example) weeks before the actual invasion)

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


as far as I can remember Russia stopped pumping gas through the pipelines a good couple of months before they were blown up

also you don't understand the concept of soft power - Germany would lose much of their soft power in Europe (and probably also outside of Europe) if they didn't firmly side with Ukraine

edit: also personally Scholz would simply would lose face if he stood with Russia on the whole issue or tried reamining neutral - mainly because he publicly declared that Putin ascertained him (before the whole thing started) that Russia was NOT going to invade Ukraine

Food / Traditional Polish Foods [141]

I know - but I won't tell

Genealogy / Searching for lost ancestors / information [5]


most of those words are in German from what I can gather

Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [158]


Alien has been based in Germany since time immemorial

Genealogy / I need help finding my Crobak family, if anyone survived. [5]


I would also give Chrobak a try since it is an actual word in many Polish dialects (including the Silesian dialect - Tarnowskie Góry is in Silesia)

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [492]


we all know you are a communist, pawian - no worries

Work / What is the job situation like in Poland? I am thinking of moving to find work [18]


or among baboons

Feedback / The birthday of Polish Forums [31]


yeah - try posting anything in support of PiS, there

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [635]


many people in Poland think that Trump is an American version of PiS (Law and Justice): a Polish political party who lost power in the elections of the last October. And they hate PiS so they "naturally" hate Trump.

History / Did Poles living in Germany support Hitler's rise to power before World War II? [135]


in other words, we love our governments until we don't love them anymore

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]


people like pawian would probably praise Tusk to high heavens even if he shat on their heads

News / Low Priced Ukraine Blueberries have exporters routing around Poland [17]


farmers are not Tusk's electorate, simples

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


it won't only growing cost of living or otherwise unfavourable economic conditions can affect (this and the personages of actual candidates)

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [177]

it would be interesting to see abortion on father's demand - I wonder how many women would be outraged

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

a Polish voice in the discussion - remember it's 2009


yeah, a prophet - he must be Polish

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


a quote from Bratwurst Boy from 2008





oh, Bratwurst Boy had a colleague

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]


I don't know to be honest - I read though that tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Germany from Eastern Europe, including Poland, following WW1 - there was influx of Eastern European Jews into Germany in the late 19th century (think industrialization of Germany) as well

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]

no confront it with these:

Donald Tusk, February 16th, 2014: "When I hear the proposal that every child after the first in a family should receive 500 PLN per month.. accroding to my best knowledge there is no way to finance the project"

Donald Tusk, February 16th, 2014: "If someone knows where those billions are burried.. and they can be immediately distributed among the populace, then I will be the happiest prime minister in the world to author or co-author of such a project"

Jacek Vincent Rostowski, Polish finance minister: October 25th, 2015: "There is no money for the promises that PiS made, and there won't be any until the end of this parliamentary term" (famous "Pinięndzy nie ma i nie będzie")

Ewa Kopacz, somewhere in 2015 or 2016: "That money won't be there neither in 2017 nor in 2018" (about financing 500+) (Ewa Kopacz was handpicked by Tusk to lead the government after he left for Brussels)

Bronisław Komorowski, somewhere in 2016: "This is the stupidest way of spending public money" (about 500+ programme) (President of Poland 2011-2015, PO politician)

Donald Tusk: July 2021: "We managed to get Poland through the crisis in such a manner, that it was possible to start big social programmes, too..We would start such projects at roughly the same time. Ewa Kopacz had a project ready similar to 500+, but she was in this last year of cleaning up after the global crisis"

Ewa Kopacz, July 2021: "PiS politicans simply lie. They say that it was very difficult at first, because we left public finances in ruin with an EU excessive deficit procedure in place , but they still gave people 500+. We left public finances in a good shape. That's why you could give out money left and right."

in the edning days of 2023 the new Polish government illegally changed the directors of the Polish public broadceters and Polish public news agency - one of the first thing they did was destroying the archives of the public news channel TVP Info (including the archive articles and videos on the website of the channel)

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]


ok, again

- Polish budget income in 2015 (the last year of the first PO regime) - 290 billion PLN

- Polish budget income in 2018 (three years into PiS rule - after implementing anti-VAT-fraud measures that PO delayed and delayed and.. and after introducing consistent checks of the fuel imported into the country which where non-existen under PO regime) - 380 billion PLN

-inflation between 2015 and 2018= under 4 per cent

-practically no tax hikes between 2018 and 2015 and yet almost 25 per cent rise in the state income (one fourth for those who don't work in percentages)

-the state income rise between 2015 and 2018 fully covered all the social programmes PiS introduced (500+ programme which awarded parents 500 PLN per month for each child, for example)