UK, Ireland / Polish in Britain - will I get decked if I speak Polish to these people? [63]


I think they would have been very pleasantly surprised. There are so very few foreign people who can speak Polish that even if someone can say something simple like Cześć or Jak się masz? it makes Poles amazed ;)

Travel / Completely random views of Poland, a co! [80]


noo, that's spooky! Just today I was thinking of him and listening to his songs :) That's of course obywatel Grzegorz Ciechowski

youtube.com/watch?v=69mH32dGOWA

History / Churchill and Poland [121]


you're such a softie, citizen67, if you think what you read on this forum is hatred for the British, there's much more hatred for the Polish on here and we don't cry, do we? And you think people in Poland hate Churchill? Seriously, they don't care about him enough to hate him. Just relax a bit and tame your imperial sense of self-importance

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]


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Goodnight

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No offence Monia, but you're talking rubbish

When people say they are proud, I'm always tempted to ask: why? Because most people don't know the answer. "Poland is great, because I'm Polish" "England is great because I'm English" "Pakistan is great because I'm Pakistani" - that's the root of nationalism. I'm not proud, I don't think being Polish is something special or better than being anybody else. But I quite like being Polish :)

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

why no one seems to have noticed my map? I think it's great :D I find it particularly accurate...

Edit: Oh, thanks Legend ;)


I like the name Passive-Aggressive Kingdom though. Very apt

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]


I am Polish, Monia, and very happy to be. But if there's one thing I sincerely dislike about Poles it's that constant need of some for getting patronising pats on the back from the West and being told "Well done,you've become so Western now". Why do we need to become Western? We are Eastern Europe, we are stigmatised by communism. That's who we are. Unless you see the value of who you are, no one else will see it. Cudze chwalicie, swego nie znacie - ciągle aktualne.


In what exactly are we backwards? I've lived in "the West" for years and I can't see in what way they are so forward comparing to us. They are just different. And richer as countries (not so much as individual people), but that's another story.

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

the future of Europe

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History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

I'm getting dizzy from looking at this map

Vlad123: The term Eastern isn't exclusive to Ukraine and Russia

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]


No, it doesn't. Why do you think the word eastern is derogatory? By saying something like that you are showing disrespect for all the great cultures and nations from Ukraine to Japan. It is just a name and it's neutral. I don't understand what's the problem with Poland being a part of Eastern Europe, it actually is, it's not Western Europe for sure, and I'm fine with that, why can't you be?

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]


I bet I know more about it than Hudsonhicks

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You don't need to be sorry, the more we know about the West the happier we are to be Eastern Europeans

And it seems to me that the West of Europe recently has been becoming more and more Eastern too, hasn't it?

By the way, what is your culture - the xfactor?

Law / Pakistani married to Polish Girl in Sweden [40]


That's the ignorance and hypocrisy of the West

News / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [65]


So when Germans do stupid things, it's because they are not true Germans, but "multicultural". Germans just don't happen to be stupid.

You know APF, I like Germans, the ones I've met were great people, but you're being a disgrace to them

By the way, what does APF stand for? Is it not Anti-Polish Forum?

Law / Pakistani married to Polish Girl in Sweden [40]


Go and do some sport before you die from hyperventilation

Love / Troubled relationship - is it because I'm Polish or should I blame it on his moustache? [28]

Thank you very much.

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

I watched the movie long time ago and quite forgot Horpyna. I didn't even know she was Ukrainian. But I remember Bohun very well :)

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]


I wanted to illustrate what I meant by dark, disordered, powerful Slavic instinct. And why I love it.


I don't have a clue what this is about


Oops, haven't noticed that before. Thank you :)

Love / Troubled relationship - is it because I'm Polish or should I blame it on his moustache? [28]


Not that I wanted to blame him, but I would like it to be less painful for him and for me. When I think of hurting him I'm feeling so guilty, my heart is breaking and I just can't face it. If he found another girl and wanted to leave himself, it would make things so much easier.


So your heart is a gypsy too :) Thank you so much, it's so good to hear I'm not the only one. I sort of know it's ended and even accepted the possibility of being single again, I guess I'm just waiting for the right moment to end it officially.

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]


The Western culture is the dominant one and it has been for at least a thousand years. It has destroyed many other cultures with deepest contempt so you shouldn't expect too much of appreciation. They can look down at us and many will do (although often not consciously), but it's up to us whether we comply and feel inferior or understand the uniqueness of our world and learn to value it for what it is, with its strength and its weakness

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do" Samuel Huntington

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]


Szopen was born and brought up in Poland, and had a Polish mother; his father was French but lived in Poland since he was 16. Szopen is the way his surname is commonly spelled in Polish


Perhaps. But she was Polish and not some mixed French.
Perhaps Adolf Hitler couldn't have done what he did and become famous if he had stayed in Austria, but we can only guess...

Love / Troubled relationship - is it because I'm Polish or should I blame it on his moustache? [28]

Pawian, he didn't cheat on me :) I wanted him to cheat on me, I wanted him to find someone but he didn't. But you're advocating forgiveness for cheating men so heatedly that it makes me wonder whether you have a clear conscience... ;)


:( This is what I'm afraid of.

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

I'm happy for Poland to be counted as an Eastern European country, in fact, I'm quite proud of it. Every part of Europe has its own atmosphere and its own beauty, and it's natural that people get more attracted to one than to another. For example the Italians are generally liked for being warm and extrovet, but I've come across people who found the Italians mainly loud and rude.

Eastern Europe has its specific charm too, but it doesn't and does not have to appeal to everyone. To me there is something dark and mysterious in Eastern Europe - and I see it more vividly when I look at the countries further to the east of Poland; the West (or/and Central Europe as you prefer to call it, APF) is more organized, more focused on the material world, on facts, action; the ego. The East of Europe is more instinctual, there's a lot more of a "feeling", but different from the "feeling" of spontaneous nations like the Italians or the Spanish. If Western Europe is focused on the ego, Eastern Europe is more like the Id - the dark, the disordered, the powerful instinct. It's scary for some, fascinating for others. I like it :)

And as much as the ego and the id might oppose each other, they form a whole, where one cannot exist without another




Maria Skłodowska WAS Polish, so was Fryderyk Szopen

Life / Poles in Videogames, movies, serials etc. from abroad .. [10]

:D cool stuff. Especially the last one - I didn't understand anything but one word :)

Love / Troubled relationship - is it because I'm Polish or should I blame it on his moustache? [28]


Yes.


How? I find it diffcult to come to terms with the idea that I've already had my share of passion and that's it for me for the rest of my life.


:) He hasn't cheated on me (as far as I know). I brought that friend around because I would like him to start. It would solve my dilemma. I would like him to find a new love, new passion and let me go.


Somehow, somewhere deep in my heart I knew moustaches were the root of all problems in relationships. It's different for beards though ;)


We have spoken about it. We promised each other to address problems. But things changed for a week, then got back to the old pattern. I'm thinking that most probably we both lost the feelings for each other we once had, but he has less courage to face it, so he keeps holding onto belief that we are an ideal couple, which we are not


Nice advice, Pawian. Maybe this is what I should do: just forget the past and try again and see how it works

Food / What made in Poland produce would you recommend [110]

My favourite Polish shop folkstar.pl

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Language / Dupa - what a beautiful Polish word [103]

:) I don't know if it's the same game. I've never heard of/played dziura w dupie, so I'm assuming it must be a variation of the name dupa biskupa. The rules are accurately described by Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupa_Biskupa. What do you say? Is it the same?

Life / Polish females who made it [29]

Tamara £empicka - Art Deco painter, whose name lives forever in one of the loveliest perfume in the world :)

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Life / Polish females who made it [29]

Irena Sendlerowa, who smuggled 2500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and gave them false identity documents. Eventually she was found out by the Nazis and tortured but managed to escape and continued her work. She and her team saved twice as many Jewish people as Oskar Schindler. She was awarded as one of the Righteous among the Nations.

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Love / Do you think these renowned Poles are hot? [150]

S. Nowak is hot in that old-fashioned pre-war way

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