Life / Polish movies with English subtitles [87]

@tavi206, I've found something like this:

subtitlevid.com/shows/77652/korona-kr%C3%B3l%C3%B3w/season/1

Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]


Yeah, it seems so... I've checked some random restaurant with steaks in New York - "CUT by Wolfgang Puck" and here's some stuff from the menu:

Hokkaido Scallop 'Carpaccio' - US$ 23.00

Bone In Rib Eye Steak 20 Oz - US$ 59.00

Wagyu Beef Sashimi - US$ 24.00

Italian Chestnut 'Boca Negra' - US$ 12.00

So, a starter, a steak, a salad and some dessert for one person would be $118 USD without wine, I guess. That's $472 USD for four people.

This restaurant is located in Four Seasons Hotel in New York Downtown, so I'm guessing there are probably cheaper places when you can eat a good steak in New York :P

Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]

@jon357, I don't think PolAmKrakow was boasting - he was comparing prices in Poland/Europe and the US...

Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]




Damn...


Maybe he meant some kind of posh/fashionable restaurant... A steak with truffles with edible gold foil or sth like that ;D
o_O'

Off-Topic / Random movies (not Polish) proposed by forum users [95]

@Novichok, I haven't seen a film like that yet, I think... Probably because I usually tend to watch films on such topics based on real events.

And as for those...


I haven't seen it, but as for terror-related topics and films based on facts, I think this one is interesting, also on Netflix:

"6 days":

m.imdb.com/title/tt4703048/

This film is about an operation that made SAS famous - until that time the SAS was almost completely unknown to the general British public, since they kept a low profile :) This hostage rescue operation was not only happening on British soil though - the seige of the Iranian embassy conducted by SAS in 1980 was also being broadcast live on BBC - and thus watched by millions - since there were TV crews outside the embassy filming everything (there's some real TV footage in the film also).

A quote from the IMDb:

"The SAS used only 30 to 35 soldiers in the raid, but they estimate that more than 10,000 people claim to have taken part."

:))

Everyone in the town where SAS had it's base apparently claimed to know "the guy on the balcony" ;D





The thing that was rather shocking from today's perspective, I think, was how late SAS was allowed to enter. Also, the police negotiator got on my nerves a bit at the end (if you watch the movie, you'll probably know why).

The film also offers a bit of a sneak peek of the gear and the training methods used by SAS at that time :)


It's good though. I can recommend. I hope they'll make a sequel :) It's just despite the fantasy motif, it's so realistic at the same time that it's verging on being slightly on the depressive side.

Off-Topic / Random movies (not Polish) proposed by forum users [95]


"The Old Guard" on Netflix. It's a bit depressing, but there are good fighting and shooting scenes in that film, apparently (according to professionals) :):

youtu.be/Vm11TQppG8s

Po polsku / Rodzice uczciwsi? [29]

Zresztą wystarczy spojrzeć jaka patologia jest dzisiaj u władzy w Polsce... Szkoda słów... 🙁

Po polsku / Rodzice uczciwsi? [29]

@Alien, normalniejszym niż PRL, ale nie do końca takim normalnym, bo jednak wychowaliśmy się w społeczeństwie stworzonym przez to skrzywione pokolenie naszych rodziców...

Po polsku / Rodzice uczciwsi? [29]


Nie wiem jak to wygląda gdzie indziej, ale moim zdaniem na pewno nie w Polsce. Moje pokolenie jest uczciwsze niż pokolenie moich rodziców. Przypuszczam, że to komuna pokolenie moich rodziców tak skrzywiła...

History / Gorbachev and Poland [63]

@Bratwurst Boy, what Gorbachev did, his decisions, his intentions - it all matters in the final judgement of his person. Not only what he did right, not only those things that you like that he did, but the bad stuff too. And he did bad stuff too. That's the reality.

So, I personally don't feel like glorifying someone who sent soldiers and tanks to kill people in Lithuania.


BB, he sent tanks and troops there to keep them as part of the Soviet Union.

As far as I remember reading in some article Gorbachev didn't go further with the crackdown on the Baltics, only because the US threatened that they will withdraw financial help or sth for the Soviet Union if he doesn't pull out the troops.

Gorbachev got mad, apparently, but he had no choice and he did.

History / Gorbachev and Poland [63]


The point of this joke is: Stalin didn't kill you, but he killed many others, so he wasn't a "great" guy after all.


It does matter as far as the moral assessment of his person is concerned. We can acknowledge his role in history, but at the same time we shouldn't be whitewashing him.


Do you have any reasons to believe that Lithuanians don't see that big picture? Unlike yours, their country was part of the Soviet Union, so my guess is that they probably know more about it than you do. I don't think you have the right to lecture them, to be honest...

History / Gorbachev and Poland [63]

@Bratwurst Boy, it's like with this joke about Stalin - "He could kill you... but he didn't!" What a great guy! lol ;P


I doubt that was his intention. He tried to keep it together. He simply couldn't do much about the dissolution. He tried, he even used force, but he failed.


I don't know, BB, that's speculation, I think. The Soviet Union didn't fall apart thanks to Gorbachev. It fell apart, because it was in such a bad state. I doubt anyone could stop this long term. The Soviet Union simply couldn't sustain it's rule anymore and people had enough. A more bloody ruler could make people rise up more strongly, for example.

So, yes, Gorbachev was sane and reasonable, fortunately. I'll give him that.

But that's not enough for Lithuanians to build statues of him and sing songs about him, I think, sorry.

History / Gorbachev and Poland [63]

@Bratwurst Boy, but he was a known reformer... Perestroika and glasnost ring a bell?


I am glad that the Soviet Union wasn't ruled by someone worse at that time, of course, but I can't be as infatuated with Gorbachev as you are, because he wasn't as great to nations that were forced to be part of the Soviet Union as he was towards the countries who were the Soviet Union's satellite states, like Poland and Eastern Germany. I'm capable to look at him not only from Polish perspective, but also from the perspective of Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians, etc. This is called empathy.

History / Gorbachev and Poland [63]


Calling him a great guy wouldn't be factual either. If you sum everything up, he was a kind of "grayish" character, I guess. Not black, not white either, but gray...


Yeah, a rather black character for Lithuanians, isn't he...

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


The criticism and calls for her to resign came from the opposition, as far as I remember, and from some journalist with Russian name who posted the video. According to polls people in Finland in general weren't terribly upset.

And I guess you didn't see comments from Poles under Polish articles about this... :)
A whooping majority was like:

"Why can't we have such a prime minister???"

"Leave her alone, she's a human being, she can party in her free time. Everyone needs to relax."

"Finns are criticising her?? What is wrong with them??"

"She's hot."

lol

If that video leak was done by RuSSians (they were doing such stuff to Russian anti-Putin oppositionists), to discredit the Finnish prime minister for the decision to join NATO, then it didn't work :)

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Yes, Jan Żabiński was the director of the Warsaw Zoo before and during the World War II, which was one of the biggest zoos in Europe at that time. Him and his wife saved 300 Jews by hiding them in their villa and in the zoo itself, for which they were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. 298 of those Jews survived the war.

Jan was also a member of AK (Home Army) in the rank of lieutenant and participated in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. A street in Warsaw was named after him.

The film about their heroic rescue of Polish Jews is titled "The Zookeeper's Wife" and stars an Oscar winning actress Jessica Chastain as Jan's wife. I've watched it for the first time this week and I can honestly recommend it, especially these days, with war over our border, it feels all too relatable...

m.imdb.com/title/tt1730768/

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

@Cargo pants, I put two separate photos together.


Yes, Antonina Żabińska! :)

There was a film made about this couple. Do you know why?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

@Cargo pants, yes, it's Jan Żabiński! :D And the lady?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Um... Are you going to use those sunflowers to make compost?


I'd just eat them the way I'd eat fresh ones... You could roast them too, I guess...

Who are those people?:

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News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

@Bobko, not really, because you also took lands that belonged to Poland and our factories (literally, physically - you dismantled them and transported them in parts to the Soviet Union) and people for forced labour.


It wasn't Zelensky and Lukashenko that took those lands from Poland, but Stalin/the Soviet Union.


What can I say... PiS are incompetent morons.

Off-Topic / Top managers in Russia - why so many suicides? [20]

@Novichok, now give us the statistics for the suicide rate among former and present CEOs of oil companies and banks in Russia, Norway, Ukraine and the US - I'm curious to see those too :)

Off-Topic / Top managers in Russia - why so many suicides? [20]

@Alien, Russian workers/soldiers smoke cigarettes and so things blow up or catch fire... And Russian men kill themselves and their families all the time... Nothing to see here... Move along...



:)

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


But do they hate the activity itself or the fact that you're making them do this during holiday? lol


Don't worry, I won't tell anyone ;D


My guess is that you took out the seeds to dry them, so they wouldn't go bad or mouldy (thanks to this you can eat them later on). I don't know about the sunflowers though.

Off-Topic / Random movies (not Polish) proposed by forum users [95]


I predict a lonely life for you, Crow lol


Could be better in some aspects, imho, but this is the only film about "rape camps" set up by Serbs during the Bosnian War that I've seen or even heard about, so it's worth watching for that reason alone.

Another film based on facts that I can recommend is "The Red Sea Diving Resort" ("Operacja Bracia" in Polish) with the lead role played by Chris Evans (Captain America from Marvel films). It's about a secret Israeli operation during which Jewish-Ethiopian refugees who suffered persecution in Sudan were rescued and taken to Israel. Mossad agents were using a holiday resort as their covert base and were posing as resort's employees. A story like from a movie :)

It's available on Netflix.

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]


Yes, and it was her music + her story that made Simon Cowell push that golden button. She wrote a great song and she sang it beautifully. If it wasn't for cancer, she could be a star.

I agree that it would be cringeworthy if she wasn't talented and shared such a story to win "pity points". But she didn't have to. She was talented.


But we do about AIDS? lol:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Show_Must_Go_On_(Queen_song)


Fortunately, pr1cks like you don't get to tell artists what they can or cannot compose their songs about :))

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]


It is a music competition. Music is all about emotions, you idiot! LOL Many, if not majority, of songs are about what you call "emotional crap" :D


Normal people do give a damn. Her song was about her life story. So, even from the point of view of the contest, it was important for her to share what this song was about. Thank to this I've understood the meaning of this song and why "it's OK". The song has become much more meaningful to me and more relatable. That's how normal people react to music and art in general. Song are often stories in a way. And if those stories are authentic, if singers know what they're singing about because they've been through stuff in life it makes their music more meaningful, authentic and relatable to people listening to their songs.


No, but they asked her what she'd been doing for a living. And she answered that she wasn't working for the last years, because she was battling cancer. They also asked her about her song - what it's all about. So how are you supposed to say that your song is about battling cancer without saying that you have cancer, you idiot?

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]


They've asked her questions and she answered truthfully. I find her story and her attitude inspirational. I'm glad that she shared her story.


No, it's amazing that she managed to talk about it and then sing in front of such an audience. A brave and inspirational woman. You, however, are truly disgusting.


Now your reaction shows what a sociopath you are.

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]


Nope, to the semi-finals. Sara James still had to go through semi-finals and she did get to the final by singing Elton John's "Rocket Man".


You mean "sob stories" like the one of Jane Marczewski?:



It's so f*cking unfair that people like you get to live to an old age and talented sweethearts like her die at such a young age...

It's not OK... Not OK at all... 😢

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

@pawian, your second guess is correct. It's my mother's pot - she put those sticks solely to prevent pidgeons from sitting there and making a mess by throwing the soil out of the pot. It's the same pot where the pidgeon mum layed the egg from my pidgeon egg riddle :) Somehow she managed to lay the egg in that pot despite all of those sticks being there. I don't how it was possible. It's a mistery. Those sticks were inserted very densely. It must've been a pidgeon-magician or sth :)) Amazing :)))

Life / Poland's birthrate on the decline [480]

@johnny reb, but you wrote this about a defenseless child:


This is f*cked up.