Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

@pawian
lol Nope ;) She is happy about getting her crown back though :) What does getting that crown back symbolise?

@Alien, nope, but close... She's a personification of something. Of what?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Who is this woman and why is she smiling?:

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Yes, as pawian already wrote - you solved the riddle - well done! :))
Formoza is probably the coolest military base in Poland (that I'm aware of, at least) :):




Yup (you can see them in the riddle photo - they're standing in two rows), although, unlike their American counterparts, for example (Navy Seals), they were part of the Polish Navy for only a short period of time (not anymore). They do cooperate with the Navy, though. I think I've read somewhere that they're the least numerous Polish Special Forces unit.


Yes, that sea serpent in the emblem is that sea creature that I had in mind when I wrote this:



A merciful lady - death. The painting is "Death" by Jacek Malczewski:

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Oh, OK... I didn't catch that, I thought that I'm getting a teacher's scolding or sth ;) I'm often not sure when you're joking and when you're being serious, so I can get confused sometimes :P


How will PF ever recover from this ;D


I don't think there's anything to forgive ;)

But, Alien, thanks for the mediation anyway :))

Btw, my Riddle 1 from post #1,158 still hasn't been solved - I wrote what that facility in the photo was used for in the past, but the question is - what is it used for now?

So, two more hints:

- it's located in a city with a rather young seaport;
- it's colloquial name is a historical name of a famous island - when long ago Portuguese sailors first discovered this uncharted island they called it in their language "The Beautiful Island".

Life / Polandball - Internet subculture [19]

@BB, ah, right, thanks :)

Life / Polandball - Internet subculture [19]


It zooms a bit, but I can't read the smaller text :/ I don't know what was the original size of the file and what programme you used for saving, but instead of resizing you could try to save it in lower quality (or try the combination of both) - this is how I prepare photos for the photo riddles thread, for example.


Me neither, I had to google it lol:

villains.fandom.com/wiki/Reichtangle_(Polandball)

@BB, who's that ninja "mother"? lol

Life / Polandball - Internet subculture [19]

@Oathbreaker, it looks great, very "Polandballish" :D I can't read it though :/

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Ah, you know, he's so well known that it's like with Cleopatra - she was a queen, but people usually just say "Cleopatra", since everyone knows who she was anyway...

Also:


Well, he was an as*hole and I have no respect for him, so...

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

The tiger belongs to Nero and the painting is "Nero's torches" by Henryk Siemiradzki. It's big - 385 × 704 cm, 27 square metres:

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Ah, it's "Wernyhora" by Jan Matejko! I knew it had to have something to do with Cossacks, judging by the guy's hairstyle :)

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

@pawian, I don't think I recognise this... 🤔 Is this someone who's wounded or drunk?


Sorry, I don't know where I got this "Germany" from lol - it will be performed in Paley European Insitute in Warsaw for 277 000 PLN. They don't even have half of this money yet.


Indeed :)


I can imagine - someone has to protect us from those green aliens from a different planet ;)

Hint for Riddle 1:


Torpedoes :)

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Ah, I see... ;D Well then I guess you forgot about "squadron E" - space operations :))

OK, since Riddle 2 has been solved:


Those two caps, which are being worn only by GROM operators on the teams, have been put up for a charity auction with the permission of the commanders of squadrons A and C by a father of a sick boy. They are really rare - you probably can't buy them anywhere else, so I'm guessing they are a real treat for collectors of military stuff and GROM fans:

"A" cap:

facebook.com/groups/948525902604036/permalink/1020224452100847/

"C" cap:

facebook.com/groups/948525902604036/permalink/1020223792100913/

The father is collecting money for a surgery for his son which will take place in Germany - it's very expensive, they still have a long way to go and not much time left. If you can, spread the word about his auctions (he's putting also other stuff up for auctions):

facebook.com/groups/948525902604036/?ref=share

You can also donate here:

siepomaga.pl/team-pawel

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Yes, correct:

A - land operations, stationed in Warsaw;
B - water operations, stationed in Gdańsk.


Are they? Apparently those are "classified operations".


What... ;D I don't think there's such pododdział... (unless it's super-classified or sth ;)) Where did you find such info?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Nope ;))

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Yes! Exactly :)) A, B and C are GROM's sub-subunits (or whatever it's called in English - in Polish it's "pododdział" or "zespół bojowy").

So, who owns those caps with "C" and who those with "A"? By that I mean - what type of "pododdziały" are A and C?

Btw, I guess they call it "squadrons" (?) - this is the back of the "C" cap:

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

@pawian, yes, exactly - it's a GROM sign :)


OK, photo hint then:

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

@pawian, I think you should be able to at least recognise the symbol on the cap. There's a letter "C" on the cap and a certain symbol of something. You know this symbol - look closer :))

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Hint for both riddles - just like delph, I'm predictable ;)

Hint for Riddle 1: this building isn't new - it was built by the Nazis during occupation. Back then it was a research and testing centre. What do you think they were researching and testing over there?

Nowadays this building is used as something else though. What is it now?

As for the cap riddle - if you don't know the answer yet, then you can start with identifying what's on the cap. Do you recognise anything? Any symbol?

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


Oh for God's sake... I didn't write that aggression shouldn't be resisted, I was just explaining what are the reasons for it.

I see that you guys are getting into some kind of frenzy because of this border crisis, to such a point that you are either starting to have problems with reading comprehension or you oveinterpret what I'm writing, despite the fact that I made clear already what I think about crossing the border illegally, about how this crisis should be resolved and that I feel for the members of Polish forces securing the border and their families.

I don't have time right now to explain myself and comment on everything in detail though, I'll probably do that in the coming days, so show some patience, guys, and don't lynch me just yet lol

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


Apparently majority of them are Kurds. What do you know about the situation of Kurds in Iraq?


Why? Because I'm trying to be objective and not forget that those migrants are human beings? I'm not saying that we should be letting in anyone who wants to cross our border illegally. But we shouldn't be demonizing or dehumanizing those people only because we don't want to let them in. Btw, young men are people too, not only women and children.


Even if that's true, they still could be sending money to their families back home, just like Poles do. My relative who worked for years in Germany also didn't bring his wife and daughter there - he was sending them money. When he went to Germany he also was a young man.

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


Partly it is Poland's fault, because of the policy of "push-backs". And I'm just saying that in such circumstances people more easily become aggressive.


Do you have any proof for that?

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


The men usually go first in order to bring their family later once they settle in.
I'm not surprised that people become aggressive when they get trapped in a cold forest with not much food, no place to sleep, no barhroom and toilet and being treated like a tennis ball by both Belarusian and Polish border guards. Some of them have been there for a month already and experienced many "push-backs".

As for money - often the whole family chips in for such a journey. I wouldn't be surprised if they were selling stuff to fund it too.

I don't approve aggression or violence, but some of them may have enough already - I think that's understandable.


It's possible that I would if I lived in Afghanistan, for example. There are worse things that can happen to kids than being stuck in a forest, trust me. Much worse. We don't know what's the situation of those people back home, so I wouldn't be so judgemental.


How? By being a GP? lol Sorry, but that's your job and you're being paid for that. Stuhr and his wife aren't being paid for what they're doing. And it's hard not be in the spotlight when you're a famous actor. I also think celebrities should be letting the public know about such actions, because they show a good example in this way.


Why don't you read the interview?

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

@Cojestdocholery, I don't think Stuhr is a show off. I'm guessing that you haven't read the interview with his wife that I linked to. Earlier Stuhr and his wife took a woman and her kids from Chechnya to their own house, they lived with them under one roof for almost a year. She and her kids got an asylum in Poland thanks to the couple's help.


Stuhr and his wife clearly have more to show: compassion, charity, empathy.

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


Could be. However, some of the Polish show-business people are going to the border to help the migrants, they give them food and clothes (and meet up with local people who are helping the migrants too), like a well known actor Maciej Stuhr and his wife, for example:

kobieta.wp.pl/katarzyna-blazejewska-stuhr-o-sytuacji-na-granicy-jak-slysze-te-historie-to-nie-moge-spac-6702964742007680a

So, another possibility could be that they're getting some expensive clothes from them.


They are breaking the law by crossing the border (which I don't approve, btw), but wouldn't you be doing the same if you were desperate enough (living in some sh*thole where your kids would have no future or would be persecuted)?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


That's also the title of the painting (by Juliusz Kossak) and the original was painted by Rembrandt​ (you can see it in New York in Frick Collection) :)

I'm posting the first riddle to celebrate something and the second riddle for a reason that I will explain later:

Riddle 1 (the building): What is it? And more advanced (and tricky) question - what is the nickname of the sea creature which has it's "lair" in there?

Riddle 2 (the cap): Who do you think own such caps?

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Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

@Ziemowit, that's common knowledge (based on research, polls, etc.), so you don't have to be an expert to know about this.

Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

Is it? One can have satisfying sex without love and unsatisfying sex even when people love each other. So I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Love does make it a lot better though, especially if people know what they're doing and are honest about what they like and don't like.

So, besides love I'd say some other factors are:
- knowledge
- honesty
- respect


Well, having an orgasm for men is a given, but not so much for women, so it's easy for you to say :P A woman won't have an orgasm from just love alone lol

For example, there are sex positions thanks to which women are more likely to climax:

womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-love/a19902021/sex-positions-that-make-women-orgasm/

Hmm, this article is better though and closer to reality, imho:

yourtango.com/experts/sexyoudeserve/how-make-woman-come-fast-3-different-sex-positions-her

"Contrary to what many men think, the reason she usually outlasts you in bed has nothing to do with your size or stamina.

Rather, it's because most guys have sex in positions that stimulate their own areas of sensitivity, not their woman's."

So, the bottom line is - technique does matter - what you're doing and how you're doing it.

Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

@Novichok, you reminded me of this awesome video:

youtube.com/watch?v=fZPabO7fY-U

Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]


No, I was just saying that having some type of sex doesn't automatically mean having an orgasm or even enjoying this kind of sex altogether. Sometimes women force themselves to have some kind of sex they don't like in order not to disappoint their partner.


And I've found this:

uproxx.com/viral/study-orgasms-through-anal/

"But it should be noted that out of nearly 2,000 respondents, only 31 women said they'd had anal sex. (Twenty five men were on the receiving end.) That is barely representative as compared to vaginal sex, which 730 women and 830 men reported having."

And this:

healthline.com/health/healthy-sex/benefits-of-anal-sex#orgasm-frequency

"For cisgender women and people assigned female at birth, anal sex can hit two hot spots: the G-spot and A-spot. Both are located along the vaginal wall but can be indirectly stimulated during anal."

So it looks like I was wrong (I didn't lie, I simply wasn't aware :)) - apparently it is similar like with men - just like prostate, G-spot and A-spot can be stimulated indirectly during anal sex. Higher rate of orgasm than vaginal wouldn't make much sense physically though, since G-spot and A-spot are parts of vagina, not anus. So, I'm guessing that either the author from the article you linked to is right that there are other factors than physical, or some women are built a bit differently and their G-spot is closer to anus' wall surface than to vaginal wall's surface. 🤷

Either way, that's actually good news that there are women who enjoy it, I guess ;)

But, wow, johnny_reb, have you become a promotor of anal sex now? :D I thought that for you it's a sin, "sodomy" and all that! ;D

I think it wasn't stated though whether the same women who had anal sex had lower rate of orgasm during vaginal sex. It's possibile then that those women had the same rate during both types of sex, because for them orgasm simply comes easier in general.

Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]


It doesn't mean that they've enjoyed it lol


Link, please ;D