1. 22 Apr 2024 - life / Examples of popular Polish music? [1,004] 📎
More music from the PRL! And for Mirek, something more rock-like (for those that like that sort of thing) Bank was formed in Silesia in 1980 and after two weeks of rehearsal made their first recording (in a Wrocław radio studio) which led to their first hit. In October 1981 they recorded the album "Jestem Panem... - 278 words

2. 31 Mar 2024 - life / The climate for gardening in Poland [224] 📎
... again today, "Defending myself" against you liars. 😴 https://polishforums.com/food/best-potato-variety-mashing-76243/2/#msg1508191 https://polishforums.com/life/poland-best-area-live-lower-silesia-75323/#msg1524108 https://polishforums.com/travel/poland-poles-like-hunt-hunting-50176/6/#msg1891022 https://polishforums.com/life/poland-view-obesity-healthy-fit-poles-49824/4/#msg1642046... - 153 words

3. 28 Mar 2024 - life / Fresh water fishing in Poland [31] 📎
I drink vodka only when my wife`s relatives from Silesia visit us. :):):):) It happens once a year! You are a terrible liar Smelly Ape...... you drink wodka all the time... and you are too drunk to spell it in Polish. - 41 words

4. 28 Mar 2024 - life / Fresh water fishing in Poland [31] 📎
wodka tonight Jerzy Mongrel, I drink vodka only when my wife`s relatives from Silesia visit us. :):):):) It happens once a year! Tonight it isn`t such an occassion . :):):) I am enjoying free time as a Polish teacher - Easter holiday commences on Thursday for us! hahaha - 46 words

5. 26 Mar 2024 - love / What to answer to the Most annoying phrase that EVERY and EACH polish girl always says? [58]
... either category (linguists can't agree on how to classify it) and this is why Poles speaking English can sound, as you say, mechanical and halting. It's different again for people from Upper Silesia around Katowice. When they speak English above a certain level they can sound like characters from South Park. - 144 words

6. 12 Mar 2024 - food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [91] 📎
but I've seen them in Wielkopolska First Silesia, then Greater Poland. Why does Lesser Poland always trail behind???? That Goralenvolk! - 20 words

7. 12 Mar 2024 - food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [91] 📎
But I was raised in Silesia OK, a Silesian tradition. We are close in actual distance but still hugely different. :):):) - 19 words

8. 12 Mar 2024 - food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [91] 📎
I am a bit younger than you :) But I was raised in Silesia and they were common back in the day. Didn't see them for a while - 28 words

9. 4 Mar 2024 - news / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [397] 📎
when actually outside of world war 2 ? The Third Silesian War and the Napoleonic Wars (during various coalitions). Maybe some other occasions that don't come to mind. At the same time only Poles, Mongols, and the French ever took Moscow... - 43 words

10. 4 Mar 2024 - history / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [583] 📎
I always thought it was BS If you think it is BS, then Silesia is also BS :) - 16 words

11. 18 Feb 2024 - history / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [583] 📎
... above Alas, not all the familoki are as charming as those in Nikiszowiec. Some of them, like the ones in Ruda Śląska below, are very often in deplorable condition and are being demolished all over Silesia... - 39 words

12. 18 Feb 2024 - history / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [583] 📎
Industrial tenements: late XIX century - today When the Industrial Revolution reached Silesia many tenements were built to house working-class families, many of whom were moving to cities to work manufacturing jobs. They were called familoki (from German Familien-Block) and many... - 83 words

13. 17 Feb 2024 - history / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [583] 📎
... The photo above was taken during last year's individual skat Polish Cup in Katowice. Skat is a card game that originated in Germany but gained a lot of popularity in Poland, especially in Upper Silesia (it is sometimes called "Silesian bridge") and Kashubia. The game is complicated and fascinating from mathematical point of view; it develops strategic thinking... - 90 words

14. 6 Feb 2024 - life / What is Poland's fastest growing ethnic group? [57]
... there if they knew what he's been charged with (let alone the civil suits waiting for him and his enablers in Poland). Interestingly, the fifth biggest minority in Poland now (after Kaszubians, Silesians, Ukrainians and Belarusians) are the English. - 60 words

15. 27 Jan 2024 - work / Are Poles workaholics? [127]
about the different work ethics in the three zabory I guess that they work most efficiently in the former German partition (Poznań, Silesia). - 22 words

16. 27 Jan 2024 - life / Opole Voivodeship - opinions and experiences [NEW]
... blurbs and links about some places to get an introductory idea of the area. I will provide both English and Polish links when possible: - Opole vvs is the smallest of the 16 vvs and part of the Śląsk / Silesia region. There are Poles, Germans, Silesians, Czechs, Roma and recently Ukrainians as the "main visible groups" of people living here. I couldn't find... - 838 words

17. 22 Jan 2024 - feedback / Suggestions for forum features [6]
... have subforums for the 16 voivoidships if we want to post multiple threads about a specific area and discuss only that area without cramming it all into a few threads. Subforums for regions such as Silesia, Pomerania, etc could be another step but maybe not necessary. The City Data forum has separate forums for USA/Canada states/provinces with subforums for regions. Example: state - New... - 181 words

18. 18 Jan 2024 - history / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [583] 📎
Where the devil says goodnight: 1920s Poczesna may be a small (784 inhabitants) village in the middle of Silesian nowhere, and some of their local authorities' jackets in 1920s had definitely seen better days... ... but they had a red-brick borough office building already back in 1921, when... - 110 words

19. 18 Jan 2024 - history / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [583] 📎
The slogan "Katowice for a change" was voted for by the citizens of the Upper Silesian capital. As for the logo, before anyone has any strange connotations... "The logo consists of two parts. Its black base depicts the cultural and industrial heritage of Katowice... - 115 words

20. 18 Jan 2024 - history / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [583] 📎
Katowice, for a change: 2024 No wars, past or future, in Pol-Shorpy on this lovely Thursday morning. Just a calm evening photo of the Silesian Voivodeship's capital, Katowice. For a change. :) - 31 words

21. 9 Jan 2024 - off-topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [68] 📎
... bloom!" "They have more start ups than San Francisco." "They just wanna live in peace, and discuss philosophy." I don't like this. It's like Germans saying that Silesia is richer, because it was German, or Kaliningrad because it was Koenigsberg. Some German or Englishman could do so much more with the bounty of land in Russia. In other words, Russians... - 197 words

22. 6 Jan 2024 - news / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [65]
... enforcement officers chased him. On Zofii Nałkowska Street in Pszczyna, the driver lost control of the car and went off the road, landing on the fence of the property at Bolesława Prusa Street - the Silesian Police reported on Saturday. It turned out that the driver was a 36-year-old Ukrainian citizen who had over 2 per mille of alcohol in his blood . Additionally, the man did not have... - 142 words

23. 30 Dec 2023 - genealogy / BASZCZAK, TOMKOW & BUJAR of HLESZCZAWA, Trembowla, Tarnopil or CYGANY, Skala, Borszczow [5]
... you well. I did originally research Baszczaks who migrated from Polana to Canada but couldn't connect them to my own. I have even conversed with some of the descendants of those resettled to lower Silesia. I would appreciate a copy of that map of residents. The introduction of 'Szkurat' is new to me. Thank you very much for your kind reply! - 78 words

24. 25 Dec 2023 - history / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [583] 📎
Candles for the Fallen: 2014 Still in Lower Silesia. For many years the monument stood at Bankowa Street in Jelenia Góra. The city authorities resisted the pressure to raze the statue, and instead moved it to the cemetery, where people... - 48 words

25. 25 Dec 2023 - history / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [583] 📎
Christmas Fair in Wrocław: 2023 Nowhere near the magic of Gdańsk Christmas Fair, of course, but still worth visiting if you happen to be in the Lower Silesia. - 29 words

26. 23 Dec 2023 - history / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [583] 📎
I don`t want to read those stories This story says that the guy in the National Geographic photo was NOT Tadeusz Żytkiewicz. It was confirmed by Prof Zambala, director of the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze. "Były rzeczywiście swego czasu pewne kontrowersje co do tego, kto jest na tym zdjęciu. Dlatego wraz z zespołem przeanalizowaliśmy to zdjęcie... - 103 words

27. 28 Sep 2023 - genealogy / Silesian, old Polish heritage? [49] 📎
It is an emulation of Silesian folk music More exactly, of the song: Karolinka has gone to Gogolin town Karolinka went to Gogolin Karolinka went to Gogolin And Karliczek followed her, a beautiful lady, with a bottle... - 112 words

28. 24 Sep 2023 - genealogy / Silesian, old Polish heritage? [49] 📎
Come on, don`t take Kukiz`s lyrics so seriously. I read in comments under the video that he voted with PIS against bigger autonomy for Silesia. I am not sure if it is true, though. How is your Merc doing, btw??? :):):) - 42 words

29. 23 Sep 2023 - genealogy / Silesian, old Polish heritage? [49] 📎
No, you are crap saying so coz it proves you know little of Poland, as usual. It is an emulation of Silesian folk music. Ha! You have the right to feel embarassed. - 32 words

30. 23 Sep 2023 - genealogy / Silesian, old Polish heritage? [49] 📎
Rock musician Kukiz was born in Paczków and grew up in Niemodlin, both in Silesian Opole voivodship. He made this song about Silesian patriotism 30 years ago - . Very nice music and wise lyrics with fragments in German while the Polish part is slightly... - 141 words

31. 23 Sep 2023 - news / Ruling PiS party tried to cover up eco disaster in Odra River [88] 📎
... president of Wód Polskie, Przemysław Daca, and the then Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection, Michał Mistrza; Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Moskwa and the voivodes of Opole, Lower Silesia, Lubusz and West Pomerania, i.e. Sławomir Kłosowski, Jarosław Obremski, Władysław Dajczak and Zbigniew Bogucki- enumerates Michał Zadara, adding that the list ends with Mateusz... - 501 words

32. 16 Sep 2023 - work / How can I found job for Hebrew speakers in Poland? [46]
But I attended mass almost only in Silesia People have been shaking hands in Silesia since the 1990s, it probably came from Germany. - 22 words

33. 16 Sep 2023 - work / How can I found job for Hebrew speakers in Poland? [46]
most people shook hands I was once in a country church near Sandomierz (where people were singing spontaneously before the service began) and it was just head nods.... in Silesia German influence? - 30 words

34. 16 Sep 2023 - work / How can I found job for Hebrew speakers in Poland? [46]
and the norm is nodding with maybe a (very) faint smile When I was still attending church most people shook hands. But I attended mass almost only in Silesia - 28 words

35. 6 Sep 2023 - language / Polish Swear Words [1,242] 📎
There is still "fanzolić", which probably comes from beans (fasola). This one sounds funny :), but I doubt it's being used outside of Silesia (we don't use it where I live): zory.com.pl/i,top-10-najdziwniejszych-slow-w-gwarze-slaskiej,100,929647.html And yes, it comes from Silesian word for "beans"... - 51 words

36. 3 Sep 2023 - news / European News and Poland Thread 3 [1,036] 📎
... Królewiec and Belrous and you can keep Smoleńsk! Belarus is a sovereign country, we cannot gift what isn't ours. So it seems we are giving away Kaliningrad to the Poles, so that the Poles can give Silesia to the Germans. What exactly is the interest here for Russia? You have to admit, to us Slavs the East Germans are a much closer people to us than the Wessis - who are essentially complete... - 108 words

37. 18 Aug 2023 - history / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [939] 📎
Maybe a phone call to Vlad will help to even get back our pre-WW1 territories. I have a Czech friend called Pavlos. Are you Czech extreme nationalist, butt hurt that northern Silesia belongs to us? - 35 words

38. 16 Aug 2023 - history / Did Poles living in Germany support Hitler's rise to power before World War II? [47]
Silesians Generally Poles in Germany and Germans in Poland are not foreign implants... - 12 words

39. 15 Aug 2023 - history / Did Poles living in Germany support Hitler's rise to power before World War II? [47]
because Poles in Germany were not Germans but foreign implants Silesians in Opole region, Masurians in East Prussia were not foreing implants - their ancestors lived in their respective areas for centuries and they retained their language (one can argue... - 63 words

40. 10 Aug 2023 - travel / Storks - the Symbol of Poland [59] 📎
Departure dates vary between parts of Poland. Birds from the south-west, i.e. from Silesia, move the earliest, then storks from the north of the country, and birds from the east stay with us the longest. The professor points out that in eastern Poland there are denser populations... - 125 words