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backtothefuture   
24 May 2019
Language / Puns and language games in Polish adverts [17]

Why are you so ready to insult Polish stuff?

Beacuse the beer is mediocre at best?
Geez, guys, do you have an obsession or something?
There are much better beers on the market, even from big companies, not to mention craft.
But the ads are good.
zubr.pl/reklamy-zubra/
you need to be over 18 to watch it
backtothefuture   
23 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

@Chemikiem
If it hurts your eyes, it must be Grunwald! :) Congratulations, I I had to resize the picture so it's not very clear but you've got it.

I'll wait for somebody to guess the cartoonist's name.
BTW, do you know what "ustawka" means?
backtothefuture   
23 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Another easy one from me.
What painting is there on the wall and what is the name of the cartoonist?
Hint: the painting has been mentioned in this thread.



backtothefuture   
23 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

It's Smierć Ellenai by Jacek Malczewski, this painting comes from 1883, there are at least two more with the same title, from 1906-7.
A tricky riddle, because Ellenai is a fictional character from Anhelli, a play by Słowacki.
Słowacki mourned the failure of the 1830 November Uprising, Malczewski made it into allegory of the January Uprising 1863.
The thing on the wall is the Black Madonna, Matka Boska Częstochowska icon.

Atch has presented a very comprehensive list of young Polish heroines, let me add to it Wandę co nie chciała Niemca ;)
backtothefuture   
19 May 2019
Po polsku / Nocna zmiana nudnooo [427]

lenistwo. "Tylko" zmienia znaczenie!
I az tyle nie jest to samo co "i tylko tyle". Duh!

I tyle. I tylko tyle. I nic więcej. I koniec. I nie ma o czym mówić. I już.

I aż tyle synonimów.

Lenistwo nie pozwala mi wyliczać dalej.
backtothefuture   
18 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Noc Kupały at midsummer.

Correct. And yes, it's romantic and lovely. Only unmarried girls are supposed to float the wreaths, the men catch them and then they live happily ever after. A very old pagan tradition. Noc Kupały is the old pagan name, later ofc renamed to noc świętojańska (St. John's Night), in Kraków they call it something else - wianki. Simplicity rules.

I think backto wanted you to guess it.

not really, I don't live in Kraków, I consider it a friendly city but it still is a bit, you know, foreign - I remember visiting Kraków when I was maybe 13 or 14, I saw this sign saying "laczki w podworcu" and I was totally perplexed, might as well be written in Chinese.

Which famous painting does this fragment belong to?

It's been only 5 hours so I'll wait till tomorrow.

Anyway, see how pretty it looks.



backtothefuture   
18 May 2019
Po polsku / Nocna zmiana nudnooo [427]

@Rich Mazur
Dwadzieścia parę pierwszych lat życia spędzonych w Polsce nie wystarczyło Ci, żeby rozumieć, co znaczy "i tyle"?
Zajmij się lepiej językami programowania czy cóś i zostaw w spokoju żywe języki.
Choć z drugiej strony zabawne jest to co piszesz. Trzeba by się mocno natrudzić, żeby takie głupoty wymyślić.
backtothefuture   
18 May 2019
Po polsku / Nocna zmiana nudnooo [427]

za trudny nawet dla Polakow

mówisz o sobie?

Seated like in the picture. It's so good. At the gym, of course.

to translator google?

Czy to jest polski ktory sie slyszy w Polsce?

Tak.
backtothefuture   
18 May 2019
News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1139]

Idk how you managed to get 1 from 0 + 0 but you did it.

Read your recent posts again.

As long as we're milking the EU cow and have freedom of movement well have to deal with the interference in sovereign affairs.

Coś za coś. We're not in a position to make it alone, it's either here or there. I, personally, prefer here to there.

But yes I do love Putin and kadyrov.

And here I beg to differ. With Putin you have a perfect example of a man who climbed to power thanks to FSB and then consequently divided the country among his buddies.

But you might like the calendar they issued some time ago, presenting Putin with a tiger, taking a bath in a frozen river and so on. A nice,uplifting picture for every month of the year.

LGBT anti discrimination bill. Instead, we'd be criminalizing it.

So you want to put people to prison for what they do of their free will and not hurting anybody. Not far from the Thought Police.
backtothefuture   
18 May 2019
News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1139]

So you say that Poland should join the little Russian political club in order to feed them our apples? I assure you, after a few years of membership we would hardly have any apples to sell.

The apple growers had to look for other markets, not so prone to political manipulation, and found them.

Besides, the sanctions imposed on Russia after they took Crimea and sent little green men to East Ukraine were in the best political interest of Poland and it was POland who encouraged UE to take some action.
backtothefuture   
18 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

@Dirk diggler
Yes, half a point for you! I said it would be easy. Now, who's going to get the other half and give the day?
backtothefuture   
17 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

I thought I was going mad.

You're not going mad, it's probably one of the things that Polonia abroad has preserved while they have faded into oblivion in Poland. Anyway, I've learnt something new :)

Pawian's last riddles are too difficult for me so I've got an easy, more feminine one.
What, what for and when?



backtothefuture   
17 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

no one apart from you seems to know about our Easter tradition the food and what it represents

well Dolno, I've been living in Poland all my life and this is the first time I hear that the Easter basket is meant to represent anything, maybe apart from the eggs which are an obvious symbol of new life. I've always thought that it's the basics staple, supposed to carry you through the next year. Bread and salt are obvious and are used at weddings too, eggs I've already mentioned, kiełbasa as a luxury to be had after the long Lent, and the napkin on top just so the food wouldn't get dirty and for the basket to look nice. And horseradish, because it goes into the Easter barszcz. Neither of my grandmas ever mentioned any symbolism, maybe it's a regional thing?
backtothefuture   
16 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

@pawian
Ok, half a point then. And your last riddle is too easy, the name of the guy is written right there... but I promise I won't tell anybody.

One more guy and I'm finished with kidnapping this thread.
Where can you meet him?



backtothefuture   
16 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Toruń

Good job! A bonus for you - the other side of the sign and two guys looking at it and wondering where to go first.

BTW - I assure you I'm not Chemikiem :)

Now, that is funny ... Krużewniki and Pearl Harbour in the same direction!

Just look at the other set...





backtothefuture   
16 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Of course you can. But I already know you haven't really visited this city... :)
backtothefuture   
16 May 2019
Po polsku / Nocna zmiana nudnooo [427]

@Rich Mazur
Myślę, że powinieneś zmienić nick na Stanisław Anioł. Ewentualnie Stanley Angel.
backtothefuture   
16 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

But which station?

Terespol. Now it was easy. But I still don't know why it should be closed at 10.00 a.m. Customs shift change?
backtothefuture   
16 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Hey, backtothefutyrere, long time no read!

Hello, amigo! How did you recognize me? Seems that my post counter for this login has been reset and my previous username is no longer available - a pity, I liked it.

Why would doors be locked at 10am?

I know! A train with the Chairman K. is passing through the station. Hence the fences and locked doors. Do I get a point?
backtothefuture   
15 May 2019
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Bonus point: where was I going?

Judging by how empty it is, might be Radom airport.
That means you were going to Egypt :)