History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

@Alien

Yes, it is so Westward-leaning, that it thinks its best friend is a country across the ocean with which it doesn't trade, doesn't receive investment from, and where 95% of the population could not find Poland on the map.

Meanwhile, it treats the two countries that fed it and raised it from poverty with incredible contempt (I mean Germany and France).

Funny country Poland.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]

@AntV

The smell alone will be worth it. Look at those tattered covers. I'm sure the pages are also those that you have to cut open with a letter opener if no one browsed that section. The quality of the picture prints (lithography?), even on that page you pasted is amazing.

Reading books can be a great sensory experience, not just intellectual.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]

@AntV

Do it!

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]

@Novichok

Ok, I don't think I'll get outted for this, so I'll share what I do.

I started in my early twenties as an entrepreneur. I did well enough off of my first venture (after eating glass for the better part of a decade), and was planning to do nothing at all for quite some time. Unfortunately, I'm now back to work - and a type of work I never expected to do. If you told me 5 years ago, that this is what I would be doing, I would have spat in your face.

What I am, is basically an investment banker (it's slightly different, but for simplicity's sake this works). For those unfamiliar with the banking industry - we are useless parasites. Traders make money buying and selling stocks. Compliance people make sure it's all legal. Accountants ensure that everything is correctly recorded. IT people make sure our infrastructure works. But IBankers, have no specialty and we're not good at anything. We just connect money with opportunities, and collect a fat fee for this, and this still happens largely in restaurants and hotel lobbies.

When I meet with someone, I probably spend 20-30% of the time discussing the minutiae of whatever deal is being worked on. The rest of the time is spent talking about what people's kids do, what shows they've seen, what exhibits they want to visit, and what books they have read.

If they had a good enough time with Bobko, that they prefer to work with me instead of the ******* from across the street - GREAT SUCCESS! What books I have read, has a big impact on how much people will enjoy spending time with me. And so I have to constantly keep reading. That's not to say I don't enjoy it.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]


I mean... come on... there's a ton of books that can make one richer.

Did you just wake up one day and start minting patents for currency counting machines? Did you not have to read some books on mechanical engineering?

In my life, I can point to hundreds of books that have made me money, but maybe this is specific to what I do.

In my line of work (present), I'm basically a glorified *****/courtesan. There are serious guys, in back offices; that actually know how to do all the actual work. Myself, I just flutter around like a butterfly, meeting random people, and exchanging sweet nothings. My main goal is for them to like me, and to believe in whatever idea our team is behind. For this, books help enormously. Because it turns out, that the guys on the other side are just like me, while their partners are busy doing the actual work in the background. So what do us idiots who have no useful skills do when we meet? Well, often it's talking about cultural things. Books among them.

Sometimes I bring my partners along that are "doers", but that don't read too many books, and they feel rather out of place.

Life / What to do if the neighbors is too loud? [40]


Thankfully for the economy, and demographics at large, not too many people subscribed to your opinion throughout the last century.

Unfortunately, it looks like today's millennials broadly share your views.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]


Apologies for late reply:

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Law / Noisy children outside [40]

Not to most kids, there's not.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]

@AntV

Very nice!

Bought 3 random volumes of an old (and seemingly unsuccessful) encyclopedia series, at an antique shop in Cold Springs, NY.

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Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]


A proud non-reader.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]


Books that were in low circulation; books most people are unfamiliar with, etc.

Not books that are popularly considered bad.

Sorry, poor choice of words.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

@Lenka
This is pretty damn good for a 6 year old.

Damn.

Maybe these Brits are not so stupid as we thought.

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This is simply disgusting. What is happening to our kids?

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

@Lenka

Is it happening in Poland, like in Russia, that the current kids are completely useless at cursive? I think in Russia in some places they decided not to teach them cursive at all.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


This handwriting analysis business smells a bit like BS. Everyone gets super nice compliments, and nothing negative.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

I'm sorry Paulina, I missed your analysis!


I'm always optimistic, and always in a good mood. So this is correct.


Yes, I enjoy a good drink.


I try. My parents and gf would however be very surprised to read this.

Please cut down on your quotes


Only thing which is flat out wrong. If anything, I have an overly heightened sense of self importance.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

@Atch

Your "to" is absolutely atrocious. Looks like an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for a scarab.

Based on this handwriting, I can conclude that you are:

1) A Virgo
2) Prefer to have your first meal after 11 AM
3) Struggle to complete Sudoku puzzles
4) Could benefit from some yoga

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

Where is this Atch? I have to go back to work soon. So typically Irish.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

@Lenka

Also we don't capitalize «мне».

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Because to write in Russian you have to write cursive. Only children and people suffering from mental retardation are allowed to use print in Russian. I'm no calligrapher, so that's why?

If I wrote cursive English it would be similarly atrocious.


I think so. Атч is better than Ач.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

@Lenka

Respect for the Russian cursive.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

@Atch

Special delivery for Atch - Bobko's handwriting. Very curious what you can say about my orc brain based on this.

Bonus: A Russian book I recently bought, published in an unusual place, by unusual people.

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History / Profound discovery - grievances towards Poland [6]

This is indeed profound. What you have developed, is nothing less than a hermetic framework for analyzing Polish history, and developing policy suggestions on the foreign relations front.

So many of the questions one has about Poland, fall to the wayside when you apply the groundbreaking framework of them being insufferable snobs.

Bravo!

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


What appears to you as a contradiction may in fact be a sign from the cosmos, that Germans and Russians always had Poles best interests at heart.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

@GefreiterKania

Kashub and Espana are badass muthafukas. Agreed.

BB is very confused. He needs to decide, is he a Prussian or what?

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

Time for an updated list of who's who, from Bobko:

1) Crow (always my number 1)
2) Novichok (very intelligent man. Manages to keep an open perspective on things, despite living in Communist America).
3) Gefreiter Kania (also very intelligent man, but of weak convictions).
4) Barney (an Irish man that sees through all the Anglo BS)
5) Atch (an Irish woman, hates me, hates Russia, but writes wonderfully about food and Ireland)

Special, honorary bonus person:

6) AntV (a true son of America)

Genealogy / What am I? (Percentage) [17]

@Heartsz

Is this a serious question?

You are 75% Polish and 25% German.

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [239]

LGBT and Catholics:

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Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [239]

Yet again...

Nobody:
Local alcoholic at the Biedronka:

Source: Russian Twitter account called «Польские Мемы»

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