Love / Is Marriage Or Seriously Relationship With Polish Ladies Worth It? [16]


It has nothing to do with her being Polish. It looks to me that she's simply a toxic person (assuming that you're telling the truth).

Btw, Videobroker, in May 2021 in one thread you wrote that you're in your "later 40's" and just one year later also in May you wrote in another thread that you're 59. Did you grow old a decade in just one year? lol


No, he didn't.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

@Lenka, good point lol

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


I'm not sure, but I'm probably a bit better with faces than names... I'm sure though that I have a problem with memorising numbers. I don't even remember my own phone number lol

There was a time when we had to memorise a lot of dates of battles at history classes at high school - I think it was about Napoleonic Wars. That was pure nightmare for me. It didn't help that I didn't see the point of learning all this stuff by heart. It seemed like a waste of time and brain space for me, especially considering the fact that we were quickly forgetting such minor details like some not very important battle under Psia Wólka or whatever *sigh* Even though history was interesting for me, I think the problem with history classes when I was at school was that we were expected to memorise too much, instead of analysing more, etc. The sheer load of the material we had to cram into our heads was putting me off. The rule was: "Zakuj, zdaj, zapomnij".


Nope, a Polish university :)

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


That's obviously not true :)

Off-Topic / Polish Misunderstanding of American Terminology [47]


I'm not pretending - there was a factual mistake in your sentence.


I wasn't rude to you in the thread "Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 3" nor here, so you had no reason to react like this.

Off-Topic / Polish Misunderstanding of American Terminology [47]


I didn't take it out of context. There's no logical link between the first sentence in your comment and the rest of your post. You even put the rest of your comment in a separate paragraph.

If you put "NATO governments" in that first sentence instead of "NATO" I wouldn't have a problem with what you wrote. But you didn't and it made that part untrue.

If you want to be better understood next time put more thought into your comments. If that was an honest mistake, that is, and not a conscious manipulation on your part.


No reason to be rude. You started this thread and I'm just responding to it.

Off-Topic / Polish Misunderstanding of American Terminology [47]


I didn't comment on that fragment in which you mentioned "NATO governments", but on this sentence: "Like NATO did in Iraq"? This sentence is factually incorrect and that is why I pointed it out. I don't know if you wrote it this way because you were being lazy, sloppy or ignorant. If you were a Putinist I would think you're manipulating on purpose. Either way, it was an untrue statement, because the invasion of Iraq wasn't a NATO operation and majority of NATO member states didn't take part in it. Even if we treated your sentence as some kind of hyperbole (which is one type of figurative language) it would still be a factually incorrect statement. As I wrote already - that thread isn't about poetry, we're discussing real events there and facts matter.


It is because you're trying to cover up your bad behaviour and mistakes by claiming it's due to non-Americans misunderstanding "American terminologies". When you lie you claim it's "sarcasm". Like when you repeatedly wrote that you have a cattle ranch in Mexico or wherever and later you claimed it was "sarcasm". Which wasn't - it was simply a lie. It doesn't matter if you were using this lie to troll Harry and delph or not - it was still a lie. When you bully people you claim it's just "friendly banter", which is not true, because people you're bullying don't enjoy it in the slightest and despise you for the way you're treating them. So, you're either you're lying on purpose or that "sarcasm", "friendly banter", etc. is only in your head.

On Chat you also claimed that I didn't understand some "American terminology", but mocha dot, who was brought up and educated in the US, called you out on your bullsh1t.

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


Are you joking? PiS isn't trying to "reform" judiciary, PiS is trying to take control over judiciary, just like they're trying to take control over anything else. What just got into you?


Yeah, it seems it's happening again lol

Life / Polish Music. [303]

Eh, sorry, that comment was written by Paweł Brzezowski - my phone changed it into Brzeziński ;P

Btw, I'm not sure if I see it right, but I think Sanah is sitting down in the video in front of the grave of Baczyński and his wife. 🤔

And the videos showing Polish countryside and nature were filmed in the Podlasie region.

Life / Polish Music. [303]

@Alien, to be honest I haven't noticed any speech impediments in her case - she talks and sings in a normal way... And what do you mean by "dictionary flaws"?


Yes, it looks like it... "Nothing Twice" got 2 million and "A Paean" 1 million views on YouTube in just two days :)


Sorry, I was wrong - I thought it's a new album, but it's just 10 songs - she decided to publish songs based on her favourite poems as a surprise gift for her fans (9 Polish poems and 1 English by E. A. Poe.).

Here's another Polish one - "Fairytale" ("Bajka") by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński:

youtu.be/fwF8bAcTmsc

Baczyński wrote this poem at the end of June 1944 - just over a month before the Warsaw Uprising broke out in which he fought and got killed. He was a poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most well known of the Generation of Columbuses. The video for this song was recorded in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw where many great Poles are burried, including Baczyński and his wife who got killed a month later. At the time of his death he was 23 years old, his wife - 22. They are burried together.

Fragment of the song/poem:

"No, i stolarz schylił z wolna głowę
i wyciosał przez czas niedługi
dla nich wonne trumny dębowe,
a dla synów ich dębowe maczugi.
Więc odeszli. Śpiewał obcy czas.
Więc odeszli przez powietrza białe smugi
z tym uśmiechem, który dobrze znasz."



A beautiful comment under this song:

"Paweł Brzeziński
While I'm listening to one poem after another I feel as if hundreds of generations were calling out to us, consciences and hearts, who through their lives made us into who we are today. It goes above everything our world is dealing with today. Thank you for this beautiful lesson."

History / Crazy 1990s in Poland - transition from communism to capitalism - stories [111]


Yes, the same was with Kolporter. The guy who created it and owns it is from Kielce (the company's headquarters is still in Kielce) - Krzysztof Klicki. One taxi driver told me that in the 90s Klicki couldn't even afford his own car, so him and other taxi drivers were helping him to distribute press by driving him with all the newspapers around Kielce. Now Kolporter is the biggest press distributor in Poland and Klicki is one of the richest people in our country :)


Or compound chocolate :)

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

@pawian, interesting, do you know how you got that face blindness (or do you have it since birth)?


Happy Teacher's Day, btw! :)))
💐

Life / Polish Music. [303]

Btw, in 1927 Słowacki's remains were moved from Montmartre in Paris to the Wawel Castle in free Poland :) I'm mentioning this because it's connected to the lyrics of that poem and song.

O, wow, it looks like it's Sanah's new record - she turned Polish poetry into songs :)) I'm loving this... Young Polish people will be singing Polish poetry now - this is amazing :))) And I'm rediscovering it for myself too:

"A Stone" ("Kamień") by Adam Asnyk:

youtu.be/uLKuf0aML6M

🪨👉❤️

Another one by Adam Asnyk - "One Day God Will Allow to Sit Down in Free Poland" ("Da Bóg kiedyś zasiąść w Polsce wolnej"):

youtu.be/OmZbsbmTGVw

"Więc gdy wio­sen­nym oglą­dam wie­czo­rem
W mgły otu­lo­na za­go­nów sza­rzy­znę,
Ktoś w moim ser­cu wy­ku­wa to­po­rem
Moją Oj­czy­znę."

🥺🇵🇱✌️❤️

Life / Polish Music. [303]

Another beautiful song - this time it's the poem "A Paean" ("Hymn") by one of Polish classics Juliusz Słowacki:

youtu.be/WxtseR03lzY

It got me teary-eyed...

Couldn't help but think about the Ukrainian refugees too...

🌅

Life / Polish Music. [303]

Sanah turned a beautiful poem "Nothing Twice" ("Nic dwa razy") by Wisława Szymborska into a beautiful song :):

youtu.be/rR001X7JQy8

"Cze­mu ty się, zła go­dzi­no,
z nie­po­trzeb­nym mie­szasz lę­kiem?
Je­steś - a więc mu­sisz mi­nąć.
Mi­niesz - a więc to jest pięk­ne."

I like this fragment - very fitting for our times... (Sorry for quoting it in Polish, but this part doesn't seem to be included in the English translation of the poem).

🌹

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

Political relations between Poland and Belarus for dummies ;D:

youtube.com/shorts/P7fjWEwWq4E?feature=share

Life / Banners and slogans at soccer games in Poland [63]

@Alien, check the title of this thread. This thread is about what Polish football fans display at football stadiums. The messages they're displaying are not always connected to sport.

News / Should we think about joining part of Ukraine to Poland? [35]

@Crow, rejoice! Our brothers Czechs will finally have access to the sea!:



:D

News / Should we think about joining part of Ukraine to Poland? [35]



A comment written by a Pole in reaction to the news about plans concerning the building of Beer Stream 1:

"I will protect that pipe with my own body"

Poles are such faithful allies! 🥺

News / Should we think about joining part of Ukraine to Poland? [35]

@Crow, not only Poland will be bigger, but also the Czech Republic!:

twitter.com/DanielVavra/status/1577370490053738514?s=20&t=b6KVYO-DMD7lm8zL_KpK8g

Ahoj!



:D

This has been the most popular hashtag in Poland lately:

#KaliningradisCzechia

Poles are such generous people... 🥺 We like to share! :D

And Elon Musk approves!:



97.9% of Kaliningrad residents approve too!:

twitter.com/KralovecCzechia/status/1577235330872508416?s=20&t=RNIfap4WKFP5sZgm2n9kjA

Královec is Czechia! :D

Language / Niewiara - meaning [3]


It means neither. This is the meaning of "niewiara":

sjp.pwn.pl/slowniki/niewiara.html

1. not believing in religious dogmas
2. lack of faith in something, lack of trust towards someone, something

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


I don't claim that divers did it. Cms neuf mentioned divers and so I commented that RuSSia has such units.

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

@Crow, let us hope so:

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

I'd prefer to live in boring times :/

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

@cms neuf, Zelensky is protected, I imagine, by Ukrainian special forces who were trained by NATO special forces. A gas pipe, however, can't fight back :))) ;)


As far as I remember it was RuSSian paratroopers who tried to take over that airport. Paratroopers are usually a fairly elite forces, but they're not the same as special forces (it may depend on the country, I don't know how it works in RuSSia). And Ukrainians were warned beforehand about the attack on that airport by CIA.


Special forces aren't the same as the regular army (that's true for any country, not only RuSSia).

The people (if it was done by humans, that is) who would put those explosives on the Nord Stream would likely be technician-divers (or whatever it's called in English) or miner divers from the RuSSian SF frogmen unit, I imagine:

thesun.co.uk/news/19942074/russia-frogmen-commandos-dolphins-guns/amp/

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


I disagree. RuSSians are experienced with submarines - RuSSia has one of the largest submarine fleets in the world. And the elite units of Spetsnaz are as good as any SF in the world, from what I understand, and they're definitely experienced. I don't see why RuSSia wouldn't be able to pull it off.

politico.eu/article/russia-nord-stream-pipeline-could-be-behind-nord-stream-leaks-says-former-german-intel-chief/

"Only a state actor could have carried out attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines and the most likely culprit is Russia, said the former head of Germany's federal intelligence agency."

Language / The meaning of some Polish Diminutives [28]

@IvyInd, you're welcome! :)

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


I doubt that Poland had anything to do with it. It would give RuSSia an excuse to attack the Baltic Pipe and then Poland would be in a deep dupa:

businessinsider.com.pl/gospodarka/wyciek-gazu-z-nord-stream-baltic-pipe-moze-byc-nastepny-trzeba-wlaczyc-podwojny-radar/689mzjw

Language / The meaning of some Polish Diminutives [28]

@IvyInd, for example: "Madusia", "Maduś", "Madis".


Maybe "Maduśka".


Nope. But "Madźka" would be possible, I guess.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

Mods, the post was still here when I was typing my comment. I don't put quotes back from the Off Topic to the main forum.

And this is still in this thread:


And my point still stands. It's especially bad in the Polish section which doesn't seem to be moderated at all.