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Last Post: 21 Aug 2024
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Torq   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Geez, it was only two photos from Kielce streets a hundred years ago, and now - over 50 posts later - the discussion is still going on. I have to choose a less controversial topic than clothes for the next photo. I don't know... abortion or death penalty maybe.
Torq   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

that's a low life comment

Oh, you're such a gloomy pill, Paulina. Cheer up :)

How about you post your photo

In your dreams. :)
Torq   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

@Poloniusz
She could very easily destroy patriarchate just by sitting on it.
Torq   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Tattoos have been present in many cultures around the world for thousands of years

Sure. However, in Europe they survived into modernity mostly as a part of prison/social margin culture. Well, sailors had them too. :)

I could play as I wanted to

Don't compare children playing at their granma's house in the countryside to adults walking the streets of cities.

The way people dress mirrors the state of general culture/civilisation. We live in a decadent, dying out, society, so it's only natural that the dress code is practically non-existent.
Torq   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

don't get me started on tattoos

Prison "culture" entering everyday life. And they think tatoos look good on them *facepalm*

The images we have is usually based on the upper classes.

Not really. Most people tried to dress smartly even under early communism, Poloniusz. While selecting photos for this thread I came across a photo (taken in late 1950s) of a queue of men wearing suits, hats and long coats - they were waiting in the queue to buy tickets for a boxing match in Wrocław. :)
Torq   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

It always seems rather shameful to wear sportswear while not doing sports.

Exactly! Why are you making so much sense today, Jon? Well, apart from the conservatism, Middle Ages etc. in the other thread ;)

How about half naked men on the coast coming to stores and restaurants like they're still on the beach?

Same thing. A painful fine the first time, jail after the second offense.
Torq   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

The men's suits aren't that different from how I dress now.

Unfortunately that's not how most men dress these days. A street in any European city a hundred years ago looked much more civilised.

And ugly.

Not nearly as ugly as sleeveless, bellyless crop tops and leggings on some women. Some things just cannot be unseen 0_0. If we are to tolerate this new fashion, then there have to be weight limits introduced for certain items of clothing and police should come down like a ton of bricks on women who don't respect the limits.
Torq   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

You mean what went wrong with your head?

Are you trying to pick a fight, girl? Find someone your size. :)
Torq   
16 Jun 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

blocking this particular YouTube channel in Poland

It's not blocked. I'm in Gdańsk and I could watch it but the huge logo, made to look like it's TVN, is a major red flag. It indicates vicious PiS propaganda, so I'll pass.
Torq   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Kielce - what went wrong?: 1920s

If one compares the fashion in the streets of Kielce (or any other European city) 100 years ago and today, one cannot help but wonder what went wrong meanwhile?
Torq   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Making Orange Marmalade: 1975

Euro 1976 qualifiers, the Dutch were vice-champions of the world and they thought they were hot-shots. Then they came to Poland. The rest is history. In the photo we see Andrzej "Diabeł" (the devil) Szarmach who scored two goals in that game.

Today, almost 50 years later, it's time to make some orange marmalade again, boys! GO POLAND!!! :)
Torq   
14 Jun 2024
News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]

Tusk has canceled other vital projects like CPL for example.

As far as I know, CPK has not been cancelled.

As for migrants, millions will have to be let in because Poles don't have enough children. The point is to select the migrants we want instead of taking the thugs that Merkel let in. If Tusk is doing that, he's an idiot.
Torq   
13 Jun 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

prosecutors will be happy

Oh, yes, no worries, proper investigations are being conducted, but as I said - it has to be dragged out in time for about a year until the new president takes over. We don't want the prosecutors' and judges' work to be ruined again by some convenient presidential acquittals.

PiS was trying

It's unbelievable that after all this sh*t you are still trying to defend them... mind boggles. I suppose it's true what they say about PiS: they don't have voters/supporters, they have cult followers/confessors.
Torq   
12 Jun 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

I would also add the horse studs which PiS took over

Sure. Or the Silver Towers affair, or Mejza's "medical" services, or the famous wybory kopertowe. It was so much that a normal person can't remember it all.

rightists

Don't call them rightists, they're f*cking bolsheviks.
Torq   
12 Jun 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

Oh, and one more "strawberry on the cake", as Tomasz Hajto would say - millions in bonuses paid to PiS government officials right after the lost elections.

Between 15th October and 13 December 2023 they paid themselves over 40 million pln in bonuses. :) I know, I know - compared to their other "businesses" it's pocket money, but it shows perfectly well what kind of people they are.
Torq   
12 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Traffic accident: 1938

Ford AA truck crashing into the barrier on the Pancer Viaduct in Warsaw.
Torq   
12 Jun 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

give some examples

Are you kidding me??? :D

OK, here goes...

Coal power plant in Ostrołęka - five years of pumping money into it, 1.4 billion pln losses, change of plans from coal to gas power plant and razing the C block to the ground :D But, no worries - those who were supposed to make money on it, made their money. It's only Polish taxpayers who lost.

Orlen and Lotos merger, resulting in Saudis taking over the shares and Hungarians (Russian puppet concern) taking over Polish Lotos stations. Thieves who were supposed to make money on, made their money. It's only Poland that lost. Magically, somehow Obajtek ends up owning 35 million pln in real estate only :) But he must have shared with whom he was supposed to share, so as a reward he got elected to the EU parliament and got immunity - convenient, isn't it?

GetBack vindication company and 2.6 billion pln taken from suckers (compared to PO's famous AmberGold where people lost 850 million) with authorities and services being curiously blind long after it was obvious what kind of "enterprise" it was.

Life-support machines trader who allegedly died in Albania but before that PiS government made a huge order, never realised, on which Polish treasury lost about 150 million pln.

"Red is Bad" scandal and over half-a-billion pln pumped by PiS government (Agency of Strategic Reserves) through this money laundry.

... just off the top of my head, and it's only tip of the iceberg. I hope it will all be properly investigated (like hundreds of millions pumped into dodgy foundations) and all the criminals put behind bars. They can drag the investigations for a year or so, so that Mr Duda isn't given a chance to do any convenient acquittals.
Torq   
12 Jun 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

you are one of the fanatics brainwashed by Gazeta Wyborcza and TVN beyond redemption

You must be one of the fanatics brainwashed by Gazeta Polska Codziennie and TV Republika beyond redemption.

PiS was the most kleptocratic government in Poland's history, putinist-level. They made pre-war Sanacja look like a bunch of ascetic monks. The stuff that came to light in recent months is staggering, but I bet it's only the tip of the iceberg.

By the way, whereabouts in Poland do you live?
Torq   
12 Jun 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

So why does stalwart defender of democracy Tusk wants extra powers

Because...

ask for president's permission to deploy armed forces

... as long as Duda is the president we can expect him to try and pile obstacles for the new government. That's why Tusk wants the new regulations, so he doesn't have to rely on PiS-president Duda's permission.

Early elections

Early presidential elections would indeed be a blessing for Poland.
Torq   
11 Jun 2024
News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]

you haven't included "Who feed and defend"

Indeed. I apologise for the omission...

1

... as for going bankrupt, don't underestimate Polish peasants - they survived harder times than these, they will survive the import of Ukrainian agricultural products, which is in fact decreasing and grain subsidies for Polish farmers have been announced (over 2 billion pln for the January-May 2024 period).

How come you support Tusk

Lesser of the two evils. And, mark my words, the idiotic green "reforms" will be cancelled. The writing's on the wall.
Torq   
11 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Sealed with a kiss... or two: 1967

Legendary boxing coach -- he was the coach of Polish NT for over 30 years (1936-1968) -- Feliks "Papa" Stamm, kissed by two of his boxers, Jerzy Kulej and Marian Kasprzyk, after the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.

Papa Stamm
Torq   
11 Jun 2024
News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]

most farmers and "peasants" vote for PiS now

That's because the PiS bolsheviks managed to fool them into believing that they are a Catholic party. This is a weak spot with peasants (and with me too) so they fell for it.

Hopefully, the peasants will soon realise that nobody hurt and corrupted the Church in Poland as much as PiS did in recent years, and will switch their sympathies back to PSL.

Nie rzucim ziemi skąd nasz ród! Nie damy pogrześć mowy.
Polski my naród, polski lud, Królewski szczep Piastowy.
Nie damy, by nas zgnębił wróg! Tak nam dopomóż Bóg!


Polish peasants forever!!!
Torq   
11 Jun 2024
News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]

It is OK if you don't.

Sure. Calling somebody a "moron" or telling them to "f*ck off" is ordinary courtesy on PF. Everyday dialogue. It's like telling "Good morning" to your neighbour in the real life. :)

I have never seen a more useless politician than him.

True. Also, I have certain reservations regarding his moral standards, but I don't want to elaborate on the topic. Not my favourite politician and PSL would be better off without him.

The reason I vote PSL is not because I don't notice their numerous flaws, I do. It's because I still believe in Polish peasants as a social stratum. Most down to earth, commonsensical and resistant to new fashions group in Poland. Go peasants!
Torq   
10 Jun 2024
History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [76]

Serbia - spiritual homeland.

Yes, Mother of All Slavia. God, if we ever forget about Serbia, please forget about us.

*scores 100 brownie points with Crow* :)