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AntV   
28 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Terms of Ukrainian Surrender [67]

@Bobko

There's another thing to consider, if Trump gets into office.

Contrary to popular belief, Trump doesn't dislike NATO-he dislikes the fact that NATO members don't pay enough to contribute to their own defense.

If Trump wins (still a big if), he'll put pressure on European NATO members to modernize and grow their defense. This will be done at a time when there's more appetite for increased military spending in Europe. When it's all said and done, Putin may have a significantly more muscular Europe than he wants.

I also got a feeling that any agreement will include Russian remuneration without Russian contracts to help rebuild Uke. Plus, some kind of economic agreement between Western Ukraine and The EU/USA.

Russia may get its eastern flank and Crimea, but a lot of pressure it didn't want. Not sure that's a win for Russia
AntV   
25 Jun 2024
Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]

But as mentioned, firemen and ambulance workers for some reason do not act as if they are gods walking among mortal men

But, they do. The difference is that firemen are better rested and don't suffer from the hyper-vigilism cops do.

I'd say firemen choose to a$$holes, where cops have to be.
AntV   
22 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

723 including 23 in one year.

To borrow from Truman Capote: was she a writer or a typist?
AntV   
22 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

to settle a dispute with anarchists, probably over who should get a literary Nobel Prize that year

🤣🤣. Who won?
AntV   
22 Jun 2024
News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [177]

we are talking about child maintanance.

That's what I said. Child support is different than spousal support, aka alimony.

@Lenka

Again, why should a man have to pay his share for something that's not his body, yet he doesn't have an equal say in the fate of that which isn't his body?
AntV   
21 Jun 2024
News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [177]

But, if the premise is a man is precluded in having any say in an abortion because it's not his body, then why should he have to support something that is not his body?
AntV   
21 Jun 2024
News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [177]

@Lenka

So, if the woman decides to keep the baby and is no longer in a relationship with the father of child, the father can freely decide not to support child?
AntV   
18 Jun 2024
Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]

(think amiga500 :D).

Or, my wife during that godforsaken week in the middle of every month. That's something you just don't want to feck with, Bobbie.
AntV   
18 Jun 2024
Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]

my favorite guy at the local Subway shop greets me like I'm king Ashurbanipal III entering Nineveh.

Hahahaha! There's a time and a place.

But, Torqi, they were walking and talking with friends! :D

When we're with friends or family we can be pretty loud too.

True that! A wesele is anything but quiet.

Also, really tick off a Pole...I've seen Poles rage with the very best of 'em.
AntV   
18 Jun 2024
Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]

@Bobko

We are loud.

You guys have to go to Africa to find your peers.

Haven't been to Africa, but the Africans immigrants that I come in contact with are as quiet as mice. Now, black Americans, especially black women, take loudness to a whole different level. It is not a rarity to go to the grocery and some black chick is loudly yammering into her phone, which she has on speaker, talking to another yammering black chick.

Italians are also very loud.

By European standards, but put an Italian in America and he seems soft-spoken.
AntV   
18 Jun 2024
Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]

Poles are quiet like Russians. Huge line of 200+ ppl, but still very quiet.

Firstly, send your friend my sympathies for having to suffer the indignity and hell that is know as Newark International Airport.

Now, Poles are quiet...my story. First time I ever visited Poland I flew into Warsaw took the bus to the Central Warsaw train station and took train to Poznan. When I got on the bus I was struck by three things 1) how courteous most people were, 2) how pretty the girls were, and 3) how quiet they all were.

I chalked up the being quiet to it being 7 am and people were still perking up as they sloughed off the night's sleep.

I got to train station, it was nearly a ghost town. I had a two hour wait for my train, so I got a tea (or a Coke) from the small cafe in the train lobby that had just opened for the day. Once I got my drink, I sat down at a table--I had free rein over which table to choose from as barely a soul was rummaging through the train lobby--took a sip oif my drink and pulled a book from my bag and began to read. I read for 15-20 minutes unabated, then lifted my head from my book to take another sip of my drink and was absolutely astonished by the fact that the lobby was crawling with people. I had absolutely no audible sense that Poles were venturing about the train station, because they were so quiet.

I thought, this is a country that breeds assassins. I didn't sleep the entire three months I was there as I was always looking for some cat-like assassin to come from behind me and take me out.
AntV   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

@Paulina

If you do 't understand what I mean, I can't do or don't care to help you understand it. I'm not much into forum pedantry.
AntV   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

that is a rather general statement

Of course it's a general statement, as we are talking about a general topic. Examples: women who dress and leave nothing to the imagination, men who dress like they are in a locker room. Fat people who let it all hang out. And so on and so forth.
AntV   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

@Paulina

Meaning a lack of modesty, courtesy, self-awareness, and taste. It's like some folks are basically saying, "eff you" with the way they present themselves.
AntV   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

t I love jeans and trainers

I do too, I'm a jeans and t-shirt guy. But, what's happening nowadays is unseemly slobdom that is uncivilized.
AntV   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

If we are to tolerate this new fashion....have to be weight limits introduced for certain items of clothing and police should come down like a ton of bricks on women who don't respect the limits

🤣🤣. Man, I agree. It was that long ago that a fat woman would do her best to hide the fat. Now, they flaunt the cellulite like it's bling. And, don't get me started on tattoos.
AntV   
16 Jun 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

the fashion in the streets of Kielce (or any other European city) 100 years ago and today, one cannot help but wonder what went wrong meanwhile?

Yeah, we've gone way too far with casual slobdom. But, I'm happy that neckties and jackets are no longer requirements.
AntV   
15 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Things We Love [307]

@Atch

Roethke is excellent. He deserves to be included in the pantheon of the great English language poets, IMO. His poems are profoundly rich. The illusions and meaning seem to bloom exponentially. First time I read The Waking, I must've spent a week with it, re-reading and thinking about it.
AntV   
14 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Things We Love [307]

The opening stanza of the American poet Theodore Roethke's The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.


The complete poem: poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/the-waking-56d2220f25315
AntV   
14 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Things We Love [307]

'whose child are you?' 😂

🤣🤣. I guess he didn't win any Dad of the Year Awards.

you have quite a poetic turn of speech there yourself in your analysis

That's kind of you...it must be my Irish genes.

Who but an Irishman could write so poetically about a lost cow!

Haha. No doubt.

A priest at a nearby parish was born and raised in Dublin. A good guy, a better priest, and an exceptional homilist. His homilies are like taking a ride on a winding road that overlooks gorgeous prairies, a majestic sea, lush forests...while running into a comic on the way.

The music you linked reminds me if American bluegrass. You familiar with it-it was influenced by Irish music?
AntV   
14 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Things We Love [307]

. My mother's favourite was 'The Cloths of Heaven' -... I'll let you discover the rest of it for yourself

Just read it. I wonder if he wrote that for his wife or children. Desiring to give one the inherent good, yet recognizing the limits of his humanity to give such. But, still determined to provide the one(s) he loves with the good, however imperfect...and the expectation of his beloved to be a good steward of the imperfect good he gives.

Beautiful!
AntV   
14 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Things We Love [307]

@Atch

That is lovely.

I remember his Second Coming. That is not so lovely. 🙂

What other poets you like?
AntV   
14 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Things We Love [307]

William Butler Yeats.

I'll be darned.

I went through a period where I read a bunch of poetry, but never much Yeats. I might have to get better acquainted with him.