Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [188]

@Korvinus
Are you sure about that? Polish police are even afraid of doing an honest day's work. All they're good for is hassling teenagers and drunks and writing stupid little notes in their stupid little books. That and taking bribes from organised crime. Polish policemen are among the stupidest, laziest, most cowardly specimens on the entire planet, they are total scum.

@pawian

Polish fuckwit cops shot one of their own in Praga fairly recently: tvn24.pl/tvn24-news-in-english/polish-policeman-who-fatally-shot-fellow-officer-in-warsaw-hears-charges-st8195166

Polish police can't be trusted with firearms - they're THAT nervous and stupid. Imagine being a cop and shooting another cop dead. Polish police are next-level idiots - I truly believe the country would be safer and less corrupt WITHOUT them, they are a true waste of both oxygen and my tax money.

UK, Ireland / Polish People are Welcome in Scotland [43]

@Erskine
I live in Poland and I deal with lazy, surly c*nts on a pretty much daily basis. Customer service and government offices, for one thing, generally feel like being spat in the face repeatedly by someone very bored who wishes you'd just go away (while nonetheless calling you 'sir' every 10 seconds).

UK, Ireland / Polish People are Welcome in Scotland [43]

The thing with Poles is, they're very fake. They won't say anything to your face, and then they'll go on the internet and say absolutely awful things about you and your country to other Poles, in their own language, when they think nobody can see them. Gigantic load of backstabbing fakes.

Their idea of 'politeness' is also paper-thin - a load of formal "good day sir/madam" with no feeling or meaning behind it, just going through the motions. Living in Poland is like being a robot living in a theme park version of the 1900s or something, everyone is "good day, sir"-ing each other constantly with completely emotionless faces. It makes me feel a bit sick, to be honest, it's so bizarre and stupid.

And then they act like we're strange for trying to spread a bit of goodwill by being pleasant to each other - a concept very few Poles can seem to even slightly comprehend.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [141]

@Korvinus

Ooh, I seen to have encountered this forum's resident edgy internet nazi!

This is Poland, you know - people spraypaint Celtic crosses and white power slogans on the walls. You don't have to be merely an internet-based far-right sh*t-talker, people tend to be very understanding of that sort of thing out there in the Polish real world, too.

But maybe you'd be a bit scared of that as many of the Polish far right are monosyllabic football hooligan types who look like Shrek, with about two braincells and the tendency to rage when they feel a bit confused, so probably a lot safer and more comfortable to just be a nazi on an obscure old internet forum...?

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

@Korvinus
Is that he medically recommended cure for life in Poland? Have you tried it? Did the rope snap but your brain was deprived of bloodflow just long enough to have the evident impact?

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

@Korvinus
Yeah whatever.

Let's recap what happened with yer man there.

He wanted to make a statement about that menorah in parliament.

Now, he could have snuffed it out.
He could have pushed it over.
He could even have thrown water on it.

Any one of those things would have been slightly more dignified and non-nuts than what he did.

He decided to let off a fire extinguisher in an enclosed space, covering himself and all others present in its emissions, and then stomped off like "mission accomplished". That's objectively hilarious. I can't look at the photos of him, grimly serious in the fire extinguisher mist, his suit covered in powder, without laughing.

Just another day in the surreal slapstick comedy that is Poland.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

@Novichok
I'm not from the US. I think where I'm from, something like this wouldn't get you sent to prison but maybe it would get you sectioned under the mental health act. Because it's just bonkers behaviour. Poland really is such a funny place.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

This incident is a really good example of what an unintentionally hilarious, ridiculous place Poland is. A very silly country that takes itself very seriously.

Braun, crazed with antisemitic fervour, decides to fire-extinguish a menorah in parliament. He fully believes that this is a serious, dignified act of protest. The polish left, meanwhile, are aghast, thinking this is a shocking and violent act of intolerance in the very halls of government.

But when I see the video/photos of Braun stalking off grim-faced and shoulders set with his suit covered in white powder, bystanders also coated in the stuff and spluttering in the haze, all I can think is: "bloody hell, what a ridiculous madhouse this place is. Lol."

This isn't normal stuff to happen. This is a very 'only in Poland' kind of thing. xD hihi

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [101]

@Torq
They can stay, it's fine. Only thing I'd request is if they can kindly manage to not insult us all over the internet every moment of every day. Not exactly great behaviour from 'guests' who have been accommodated to the extent that they have both an entire aisle and refrigerated section in every big supermarket, and can even get their own brands of ketchup and fruit juice (talk about pampered!). Tbh, we could gift them all a million quid and change the national anthem to a song about how Squadron 303 were amazing and Poles would still find it in their hearts to sh*t-talk us constantly, it just seems to be how they're wired.

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [101]

@amiga500

That's very funny mate. Try it and see what happens to your hundreds of thousands of economic migrants in our country. No more drinking on the street for Darek unless he wants a kicking.

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [101]

@Ironside
"Your war" ended when you were defeated, yes (in the sense of "for you, zer war is over"). But the war that started when you were invaded continued - the war we joined because you were invaded. And again, plenty of others sat it out or joined your enemy, so you know there WERE other options on the table.

Sorry if the reality of Polish antisemitism (part of a general wave in continental Europe pre-war that created the environment for the Holocaust) creating justification for the state of Israel's existence troubles you. When your country was having pogroms even AFTER the Holocaust, it is a little much to start claiming you're blameless. Once again, I didn't say it was inevitable that Israel would turn into what it has, but the creation of the state itself bears Polish as well as German fingerprints. You drove them out of Europe.

MY feelings are hurt? That's a gem. Which item of your national martyrology can I critique now that will cause you and the other proud nationalists to start bawling?

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [101]

@amiga500
Lol - big tough guy, eh?

This is the mental illness of Polish nationalism at its finest - bloke makes a statement that disagrees with your national martyrology and you start talking about giving him a beating.

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [101]

@Torq
This is probably the first time I have encountered this level of reason and civility from a Pole when it comes to this topic. Usually it doesn't get far above "YOU BETRAY US, ANGOL!!"

Yes, well pointed out - Churchill DID come up with plans to attack Russia, and as far as I know it was the USA that didn't want any part of it - they were more concerned about the Pacific theatre, maybe. But still, we seem to get the lion's share of the blame for 'betrayal'. We are Poland's favourite punching bag after Russia, Germany and Ukraine. To the extent that this joker just said our war casualties - a war we joined when Poland was invaded - were 'laughable'.

@ironside

"For you" as in "incurred after joining your war". Once again (like WW1), a continental European conflict that we didn't start but were expected to help finish.

Btw when a Pole, of all people, is telling me I'm "playing the victim", that's when I know I've passed to the other side of the looking glass.

Nobody, least of all me, is suggesting what is happening now in Gaza (and Iran) is due to what Germans and Poles did to the Jewish population. But in terms of causality, creating a hostile environment that drove them to create their own 'safehaven state' has certainly played a role in the creation of the state of Israel.

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [101]

@Ironside
The "big state of Israel" arguably only exists because your neighbor decided to annihilate the Jewish race and the Poles and other Eastern Europeans drove the remaining Jews out. Must have been great for them to escape the camps, the few that could, to come home and find that some Pole has stolen it along with all their possessions. If the world has a problem with Israel, you should know that it's because of your region.

Re. Bills: the UK was still paying off its war debt to the USA - a war it joined because you were invaded - in 2006. Billions of dollars. That was for you. A thank you would be nice.

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [101]

@Ironside
Nobody cares about your little victim complex and your martyrology either. A country stupid enough, btw, to get its capital city levelled in a laughable doomed insurgency should probably keep its mouth shut in terms of what others "should have done".

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [101]

@amiga500

"Fake paper war"? Sod off, there was nothing fake about the war my grandparents fought in. Maybe we didn't / weren't able to act quickly enough for your tastes but then Poles have always been impatient and demanding ;)

I would like never to hear Poles use the phrases "phoney war" or "betrayal at Yalta" ever again. It's not enough that we have to listen to them insulting every aspect of our nation and culture on the internet (see any comments section of any YouTube video or Instagram post) all the time but we also have to listen to them insulting our grandparents' and nation's efforts in the war we joined because they were invaded? A war plenty of others in Europe, btw, were happy to either sit out or join on the enemy's side.

Maybe save your resentment for the Spanish, because as we all know they were a great lot of help to you. Or maybe the Italians and Japanese, because we all know what amazing allies they were.

Still waiting to hear the proposals for what Britain was supposed to do instead of "gifting Poland to Stalin", btw. We were really meant to march eastward straight after WW2 and start another one, just for you?

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [101]

@Crnogorac3

I hate this finger-pointing, resentful nonsense. Poles love to bang on about 'gifting Poland to Stalin' at Yalta but never actually have any suggestions about what Britain was supposed to do better.

So, Britain was supposed to force the Soviets to leave poor little Poland alone, is that right? How, exactly? Do you not think perhaps the USA - bigger, more powerful, less ruined by the wars - had a greater responsibility and ability to help Poland here?

After leaving WW2 completely battered after many years of fighting and holding out alone in Europe, perhaps Britain was supposed to start WW3 with Russia straight away, just to prevent poor Poland from being under Russian influence for a few decades? I am sure the Tommies fighting the war in Europe would have loved that, ditto the people back home.

So, please tell me: what would be the alternative to this 'betrayal'? Sending the exhausted British army off to Moscow? Churchill somehow managing to be more persuasive to Stalin than the USA - richest and most powerful country in the world - could have been?

Polish nationalism really makes people come out with some total b*llocks, doesn't it? Including absolutely shameful slurs about your ally, who joined your war first, to help you when you are invaded. Sorry but WW2 wasn't solely "the poor little Poland story" and we don't all have an overriding imperative to protect you and your interests at all costs, including possibly starting WW3 with the USSR. We joined your war on your side and that is more than enough. Stop with all the crap.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]

@jon357

One of the reasons I like Bielany (other than it's just a nice, relatively cute place, at least by Warsaw standards) is that I seem to see more cats (and less dogs) there than anywhere else. So, yep, tracks with what you said - further from centre!

@Bobko

Saw this post and couldn't resist replying. I like cats, can't stand dogs (filthy, irritating creatures) and thought I'd comment on Poles' dog nonsense - such is the level of conformity in this country that you almost feel browbeaten into being a 'dog person' by default just because everyone else seems to be and they can't imagine why you wouldn't be, too.

I really dislike dogs immensely and all the selfish dog owners here p*ss me off so much. The area I live in is covered with sh*t and I have to listen to constant barking - it could definitely do with MANY less dogs and a few more cats.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [141]

@Torq
It's not so much 'hating' as being very direct and honest about certain things. I heard Poles are supposed to be big fans of that? Maybe not when they're on the receiving end, though.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [141]

@Bobko
Thank you and likewise - enjoying your comments greatly!

I'll stick around until the Poles discover my true identity and I'm publicly executed in Stadion Narodowy for criticising the national passtime of internet sh*t-talking, showing insufficient reverence for the nation's martyrology, or something else that enrages the world champions of "dishing it out but not being able to take it".

@Korvinus

Around a million of you in my country, stary, enjoying the state benefits, high wages and freedom. Think you can handle little ol' me.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [141]

@Ironside
Christ, here we go. "We are ALL nationalists due to hard history of proud national struggle". I swear there's not another country that takes itself as seriously as Poland, except maybe the USA and North Korea.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]

@jon357

I very, very rarely see cats strolling about. Sometimes I see them in people's windows. I feel like being a cat in Warsaw must be like being Will Smith in I Am Legend, with all the bloody dogs everywhere. Poor little f*ckers - when one set of people in the block have one of those Nazi camp dogs and the others have a sodding Tibetan mastiff (both kept in tiny flats until they're totally bonkers, of course), it must not make for a feeling of general relaxation and safety.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]

"What?! You do not like dogs? Myślę, you are the gay O_o" - see their mocking of Jarosław Kaczyński for literally the only likeable thing about him: he's not just another deranged Polish dog-maniac.

News / Will Elon Musk apply for political asylum in Poland or Russia? [31]

Poland - he probably thinks it's so "safe and clean" - the current code-term Nazis like him use for "overwhelmingly white, conservative and Christian".

We'll see how his South African constitution copes with his first six-month winter, though. He'll be right back in Trump's Twitter DMs asking for a pardon.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]

@Miloslaw
When was the last time someone's cat - of a breed literally bred for violence - ripped a small child's face off? Now when was the last time someone's ridiculous German camp guard dog / husky / gigantic overseas breed, kept cooped up in a 40m2 "two room apartment" until it was completely and utterly insane, did the same?

When was the last time you found yourself dodging piles of cat sh*t littering the street of a residential Warsaw/Krakow neighbourhood?

Poles' dog pathology is ABSOLUTELY WILD. They worship these horrible, stinking things and just let them run riot.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]

Many of them seem to think liking cats is a bit weird and maybe a bit deviant (feminine if it's a man) and they're shifty creatures somehow - not like dogs, which are good and solid animals, which everyone must of course love - and you have to just tolerate these beautiful creatures' stinking feces everywhere and not mind when they bring them to the pub or a cafe, where they run around chasing each other and making ear-splitting barks every five f*cking seconds.

Basically, Poles are to dogs as the ancient Egyptians were to cats. And, like Catholicism (their other religion), there's only room for one animal god.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [141]

@Bobko
Hahahahahahah!!!! Marie SKŁODOWSKA Curie was frying up kotlety - in full winged hussar regalia - while we were buggering about in wode and making henges and what have you. Eagle emoji flag emoji Polska gurom.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [141]

@jon357
Maybe some of it's the inferiority complex sometimes but a lot of them genuinely think they're hot sh*t. Their heads are ballooning even further in recent years due to overseas racists telling them Poland is the best place in Europe because it doesn't have much non-European immigration. That's another topic but also one that doesn't make me feel good about living here and also makes social media an absolute nightmare right now if you're not a flag-f*cking Polish nationalist (which make up about 80% of the population) or a non-Polish nazi. This country makes me so tired.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [141]

@jon357
Well, I'm sorry, maybe I need to be more zen and curate my online existence impeccably, because that seems to be the only way to avoid Poles being rude as f*ck about us, our women, our food, our weather, our culture, just about everything. I think I have a right to be annoyed and I think I have a right to raise it here. The clue is in the post title.

Or maybe, just maybe, I'm not the one being a c*nt here - they are. The way Poles behave online, flagrantly, makes me want to cut up my residency card. I hope they feel proud of that.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [141]

@jon357
No mordo, I'm posting this from a Kremlin basement. Yes, I am in Poland, which is why I can say these things with absolute conviction and why it's especially horrible to see Poles going to town on my people/country all over the internet all the time with such evident glee.