Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


Exactly. Good point, Lenka.



I think it's hilarious that every single link on this forum is being deactivated ASAP and people who use one or two quotes over a limit are getting scolded by the mods, but crap like this is often completely ignored on PF. What a joke this forum is... Or rather - the way it's being moderated.

The post was deleted minutes before your post, now you have put some of the quotes back into the thread

Po polsku / Jak zwykle chodzi o kasę! [48]


Żadne bajki - moja babcia na wsi dostała dofinansowanie z UE do paneli słonecznych.


Przeżyć przeżyje, tak jak nie umarła przed wejściem do UE, ale jaka byłaby jakość tego życia? Ludzie nie chcą tylko "przeżyć", ale też godnie i dobrze żyć.

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


Wow... lol Thanks for the link, Lenka :)

@Aurelioo, if you want to know opinions of Poles (and others) about joining Lviv to Poland then you can read comments under this tweet:

twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1574832556901634048?s=20&t=_KpJOniMeurGNH7xKrOw3g

Barbara Zebra
The audacity those russkie wh0res have...

Anakin
That's not audacity, it's stupidity.
Who will believe in their crap?

Yarzyn
Illiterate russkies who will go to war.

Anakin
What good it will do to them? They'll end up as prisoners or six feet under anyway.

Yarzyn
Yes, but they will die eagerly :)

Anakin
It won't change much.

Yarzyn
Are you kidding?! Self-complacent fertilizer makes for a better soil. :)

Legionmmz...
We can take Kaliningrad

Przemo Ebebem
But without ruSSians

Maszunia
XDD

GL HF
Hahaha. Sick.

Timothy Ka...
Seriously, what drugs are these Russian propagndists taking?

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


You wanted to know our opinion about what exactly? About RuSSian misinformation? lol


Not of all the sins, but of spreading lies of RuSSian propaganda - it's pretty obvious that this is the only reason why you're here.

Where did you get that photo?

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


Fake lol 🤦


No.


There's no such thing. Stop lying, ruSSki troll.

Btw, I see why would RuSSian propaganda spread such brazen lies in territories occupied by RuSSia where Ukrainians don't know what's going on in the outside world (and from what I've read RuSSians are doing exactly that), but what's the point of spreading such misinformation on a forum about Poland where Poles and Westerners are writing and can debunk such bullsh1t easily? I don't understand... Or maybe this troll is paid simply for the number of sites he's posting these RuSSist lies on, no matter whether it will have any effect or not?

UK, Ireland / How do the Polish and People with Polish Ancestry feel about British Royality [61]


I wonder if she was as "surprised" by what her son was doing during his marriage to Diana.


Noone is "lying" by wearing a white dress. It's simply a customary/traditional choice for a woman to wear a white dress during her wedding. Even when women want to wear something more original they may get pressured by their family (usually by the older generation - mother, grandmother) to wear white. I don't know about the US or other countries, but in Poland almost noone cares about this "virgin stuff" anymore.

Also, from what I've once read, wearing a white dress to your wedding is a fairly young custom. In the past women were simply wearing the best dress they had to their wedding.


lol
My sister in law was wearing a red dress to her wedding :D 😎

Life / Buying groceries in poland. Poles don't buy name-brand foods? [35]


Nooo... Mayo is yummy! :P

But for me it's the one and only: apimarket.pl/507850-thickbox_default/majonez-kielecki-310-ml.jpg]kieleckiisthebest

:D

Off-Topic / Are the "Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK)" chens training in Ukraine? [8]

@pawian, Aurelioo "asked" whether MEK is training in Ukraine, not fighting. As far as I understood that alleged correspondence in Ukrainian between this "Eva" and some other person - some "Persians" from Albania came to their training ground to train and after they finish they're going back (so, it looks that they're not going to fight in Ukraine).

Of course, I have no idea if this correspondence is real or fake. And even if it was real, it doesn't specify who those "Persians" are. Are Iranians called "Persians" in the Ukrainian language? There are members of MEK in Albania, but also refugees from Syria found safe haven there, so she could mix those two peoples up, as coming from the same region.

But my guess is that this conversation is made up by RuSSian troll factory.


Yeah, my thoughts exactly.


Yup. He registered out of the blue 7 hours ago just to post this :)) Obvious bot is obvious lol

Off-Topic / Are the "Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK)" chens training in Ukraine? [8]

@pawian, they're from Iran:

bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34677211

"The Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) is an exiled opposition group that backs the overthrow of the Islamic Republic."

Off-Topic / Are the "Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK)" chens training in Ukraine? [8]

@Aurelioo, why on Earth would MEK be training in Ukraine? o_O


So what's so interesting about it? I don't see any mention of MEK there.


Really? How so? lol Gani Zeka is an Albanian who's been working in Poland for years as a doctor. He's also into helping people, organising humanitarian aid. What's so interesting about it? :))

So, tell us, RuSSian troll, where did you get this supposedly "interesting" stuff from? :)))

Po polsku / Dyrdymałki o Niczem 2 [312]


Dokładnie. W tym sęk.


No właśnie, przecież brak bratania się z Putnistami, którzy popierają inwazję na Ukrainę nie oznacza automatycznie nienawiści do całego narodu rosyjskiego o_O

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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