Life / Are the Polish Police Gutless? [21]

ok this is 2010 presidential election - I could have mistaken these for 2007 parliamentary elections

but PO won a decisive victory back then too -

76.2 per cent . detained in detention centers and prisons across the country voted for PO and 7.6 percent . for the Democrats ; Law and Justice with a score of 2.8 percent . was under the threshold of the election - said the spokesperson of the Central Board of Prison Service Luiza Sałapa .

Entitled to vote in closed circuits prison was 87 447 people. Voted 61 688 eligible , or 70.5 percent .

PiS only had 2.8 per cent not 28 as the title states

Life / Are the Polish Police Gutless? [21]

welcome to the PO run country where policemen have to buy electric bulbs and toilet paper for their offices themselves

btw PO won an overwhelming victory in jails - over 90 per cent in almost every single jail

isn't caring for people's safety not the single most important thing the official state is for - if so then PO fails to run a state miserably

btw there are numerous reports that the police don't show up because they have not enough money to pay for their fuel - this is also why the police presence in the streets (say night patrols) severely decreased - and again they are not paid enough and now they limited their retirement priviledges - not much incentive to go after crime

News / IS POLAND INFLUENTIAL? [16]


open your mind pal - 3rd tier country? - any better?

History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]


quite interesting actually

History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]


that Goths lived around Gdańsk Bay at the time you mention is commonly accepted among scientists - however this is no evidence Kashubians are their descendants - Goths most probably moved further south in time as we find them on Dnieper and even the Black Sea in some 3rd century AD - they have left traces along their migration route and even linguistic traces in neighbouring common Slavic speech (a good couple of words borrowed from the Goths by Slavs and perhaps a couple that made the opposite way too) - my guess (I am not that well informed on the subject) they haven't left any populations behind in the course of the migration

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

It is an old joke - 2 drunkard sit and drink methyl alcohol and suddenly one says - Let's drink faster, it's getting dark ;)

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

there is very serious possibility your ancestors never had any coat of arms because they most probably were not nobles - btw were nobles really noble

Food / What's your favorite Polish coffee? [75]


there are coffee vending machines with the Dallmayr brandmark in bigger railway stations in Poland - packaged coffee of the brand is not popular though (and definitely not widely available)

Life / Rich man, poor man - today`s Poland [80]


in Poland they have already done (starting late 2008) most possible cuts on the fuel expenses for police - and it shows in the streets and in the reports how the police work in many cases (you have to understand Polish and watch Polish TV from time to time to hear about these things mostly)

History / Polish historical myths - to break or not to break them? [257]

because steel armor is better at protecting equally from musket bullets, other projectiles and cold steel weapons?? and because husaria were mostly fired upon from the front?

Po polsku / O co chodzi z tymi Żydami. [144]


a skąd rząd weźmie pieniądze jeśli nie z podatków - a podatki to kto ostatecznie zapłaci w cenie towarów

ja mam szczerą nadzieję, że nie dostaną złamanego centa za nienależne spadki bo sobie jakiś tam pan na jakimś międzynarodowym zlocie żydowskim powiedział że 'nie dopuścimy do tego żeby Polacy dziedziczyli po Żydach' (ten pan tak nawiasem mówiąc jakimś tam bylekim to raczej nie był tylko bardziej taką szychą w różnych Kongresach ichniejszych) - ale... sęk w tym że gwarancji nie ma i tak sobie wyobrażam pawian że w takim SLD to jest trochę osób które są jakby nieco bardziej filosemitami niż ty i by chętnie z sobie znanych powodów odpalili parę miliardów USD 'środowiskom żydowskim' (świadomie piszę parę mld USD bo wiesz że to niby taki dobry interes że chcieli 65 mld a my daliśmy im tylko marne 7,5 dajmy na to - i taki scenariusz wydaje mi się niestety realistyczny - teraz sobie policz ile to te 7,5 mld USD jest w porównaniu z rocznym Polskim deficytem budżetowym)

Po polsku / O co chodzi z tymi Żydami. [144]


hahahah dobre - faktycznie ja jeszcze wszystkiego o swoim antysemityźmie nie wiem :) w każdym razie na to wygląda ;)


o stary - ty jakiś apokaliptyczny filosemita jesteś albo apokaliptyczny fatalista :P

ciekaw jestem jak będziesz chłopie śpiewał jak pan Tusk po wyborach (a będzie pewnie rządził z SLD które z dystansu do środowisk żydowskich raczej znane nie jest) zgodzi się panom z AJC wypłacić dajmy na to w ciągu 5 lat 65mld dolarów rekompensaty za utracone mienie żydowskie i obetną ci wskutek tego pensję o 15 procent nominalnie a dojdzie do tego drugie 15 procent inflacji

Life / Polish and Czechs [191]


pan-Slavic movements were never very popular in Poland for political reasons...

...still the affinity of the languages just makes Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians close (closer than Germans and the English I reckon)

History / Polish historical myths - to break or not to break them? [257]


because it hadn't for the most part

I am no specialist but I guess the rope used for lassoeing was attached to some hook on the saddle and the warrior's arms were mostly used to throw the lassoe and then quickly fasten it arround the 'hook'

pulling from the back is I guess considerably more effective in dismounting any rider then pushing from the front - in case of pushing from the front the body automatically reacts to oppose, a reaction which is not present in puling from behind - there is also a difference in where the force is applied - lassoe can catch the upper part of the body (including the head only which is very dangerous) - in all I believe lassoing is a very effective way of dismounting (and consequently harming) a rider of any kind (especially pulling from behind) and thus very dangerous

again hussars fought not only in formations and not only in frontal attacks - in case of fighting Tatars they could have been easily mixed in or surrounded by their mobile cavalry (mobile skirmishes) - having said that it is not that I am 100 per cent sure that the 'wings' were actually used this way - I just think they could have been used this way and if so probably originated from anti-lassoe measure

History / Polish historical myths - to break or not to break them? [257]

it's not the best thing (from military point of view) but the fantastic look of the film

youtube.com/watch?v=w7bXsUyGWhw&feature=related

note that in 4:54 the guy playing a reiter gets kicked by the horse under Kmicic/Olbrychski

History / Polish historical myths - to break or not to break them? [257]

even more read about husaria tactics
kismeta.com/diGrasse/HowImpact.htm

History / Polish historical myths - to break or not to break them? [257]

kismeta.com/diGrasse/HowHussarFought.htm

this is a very interesting read about husaria

History / Polish historical myths - to break or not to break them? [257]


'1612' is hardly historic in showing what husaria was and how it was used

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

hi, I think they are hardly worth anything

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [320]


familia is more like a family name in Russian than the family itself and Russian also have a different word for family 'sjemja' ('syem'ya') which I guess is Slavic (maybe it comes from 'seed' - compare archaic Polish 'siemię' = 'seed')


Russian grammar is a bit simpler than the Polish one but it still has good couple of noun cases and comparable difficulty of verb aspects (perfective/imperfective)

Russian phonetics is a bit simpler than Polish - but hardly any Westerner masters their 'soft consonants' and most pronounce these as their plain variants (it hardly sounds Russian anymore then)

the different alphabet is not a big problem - you can read it pretty fast after some practice (I learned it almost instantly as a kid in school) - the only problem is some sounds behind the alphabet

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [246]


I know the question is age old - but not it's not a newt it's just a common type of lizard 'jaszczurka' (there are three native species of lizards in Poland but one is not at all common (jaszczurka zielona = european green lizard)

Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [211]

a pretty accurate rainfall and sky condition prediction - USAAF European meteorological service:

you need other sources to see what is the prediction of temperature

there is also this site [eurometeo.com/english/meteosat/jump_EUMET:MPE-1] - this is close to real time satellite imaging focused on precipitation - let's you know if a storm or a storm front is developing and aiming for where you're at

sometimes pogodynka.pl has its meteorological radar images updated close to real time (when big rainfall is predicted - normally they have over 3-hour delay) - nowa.pogodynka.pl/radary

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [320]

Rain33


Kashubians speak perfect Polish - they are sort of bilingual


po ruski - ja toże nie goworiu choroszo chotja ja ucziłsia jego w szkolie - Polish has it's own specific transliteration of Russian which is not completely phonetic but reflects the Russian written forms

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


because you would have to pay for it - secondly many people would think you are a Jew and Jews don't have good opinnion in Poland generally - thirdly as PennBoy said why fix something that is not broken - maybe circumicision makes sense in hotter climates but little in Poland

Language / Is Polish amongst the best-sounding languages in the world? [123]


yes it does - just think of 'do prdele' hehhe :)

Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]


It must have taken you a good couple of weeks to walk all the way to Warsaw and back to Germany ;) - this is what the sentence roughly means in Polish

Don't translate word for word using dictionaries - it actually seldom works

OK - after reading your Polish sentences I notice this szedłem is the only mistakenly used vocabulary so don't despair - you're doing pretty fine.

Kiedy studiowałem w Niemczech, pojechałem do Polski na wakacje.

Life / What Are Top Television Shows to Watch in Poland? [20]

hardly, son, hardly

the only soap that I like is the 'Na dobre i na złe' - it's about doctors in a hospital

oh sorry I also enjoyed 'Ranczo'

I have no idea if you can watch these from TV Polonia satelite channel or from some sime on the internet though

News / Polish-German Close Cooperation Plan [31]


sure Germans should praise Tusk - they can't imagine a better partner in Poland

the word PR (public relations) in Poland has gained much popularity and hmm PO government and Tusk himself stand mostly for PR for many Poles(and not much else more) - there is a growing risk crucial developements will be missing before the EURO 2012 (like motorways) - btw Tusk is also a simple (edit: I meant plain) and blatant liar

News / Polish-German Close Cooperation Plan [31]


you must be living on some different planet - or maybe it's just the language barrier

Language / Polish verbs are confusing/I get many results when I look them up in an online dictionary [54]

if Polish language is so poor why it is so difficult to translate such things as 'Pan Tadeusz' into English mate