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40 Photos From Polish Social Media Profiles That Raise As Many Questions As They Provide Answers
Poland is a country in Central Europe with a history that spans over a thousand years. Its diverse territory extends from the beaches of the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in its south, but in order to truly understand this place, we must look at the people who live there.
Enter 'Pictures from Polish profiles.' This Facebook page collects all the colorful photos that Poles upload to their social media accounts, providing a no-filter glimpse into their everyday life. From priests and policemen to football hooligans and babcias, continue scrolling to meet the folks and see what they're up to!
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Random person 4 years ago
What? The Polish or English word isn't used like this in my knowledge?
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It's probably the thing were people don't understand the English, but wear the shirt because it looks cool. Like me getting frustrated at the non understandable grammar and word usage on my cousins shirt, and her having no clue what it says.
ThEboRedEsTpANdA 4 years ago
Why it's confusing: lesbian is the word for women who are exclusively romantically attracted to women
Kevin Warner 4 years ago
Cool Guy. At some point he discovered what's written in English and loves the shirt more so because of it!
piratefetishmachine jones 4 years ago
This is a very old joke shirt. I first saw it on Jello Biafra in the late 70's.
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RandomHumanBean 4 years ago
thats jeniuus! there is plenty of room for it, it doesnt harm anyone, its great
Layla Corman 4 years ago
This is absolutely brilliant! As a Polish girl, I feel a strong sense of pride with this one!
According to Culture.pl, a website about the country run by its residents, Poles are really hospitable. "[As one] Polish saying goes: 'A guest in the house [is a] God in the house'. Hospitality plays a crucial role in Polish culture," they introduced themselves. "Poles often choose to entertain guests in their households, which on many occasions involves the preparation of a proper, home-cooked meal by the hosts. A spectacular display of Polish hospitality takes place during the Christmas and Easter celebrations when people invite numerous relatives and friends over for meals that often feature a whole array of home-made dishes."
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Layla Corman 4 years ago (edited)
I'm so impressed with that cuke! I have so many questions about how this all happened though- Did the cuke start growing in a ? shape, so he went and got a Riddler costume? Did he have the riddler costume from a party some years ago and see the cuke and have a 💡 moment?
Lech Dąbrowski 4 years ago
Dunno. This one is photoshopped if you look closely.
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Kona Pake 4 years ago
Map to the homes of all the stars, only 25 Polish Zlotys.
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Leo Sun 4 years ago
It's not Poland. It is Blagoveshchensk (Russia) https://www.amur.info/news/2018/09/22/143706
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Layla Corman 4 years ago (edited)
This is heartwarming and adorable! This pic just made my crappy Thursday better and brighter!
Janina Prado 4 years ago
See bunny? SEA bunny!! You're comment made me really laugh, and I startled my cat
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Orange is aging 4 years ago
Not sure why but he reminds me of massimo (100% spelled that wrong) from Luca
Also, Polish people won't admit defeat. "Some might consider calling Poles 'indomitable' surprising, since Poland was once partitioned for over a century. Nevertheless, Poles were perceived as such, for instance, by the great Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges," the folks at Culture.pl explained. "There are a number of good reasons to share his view. Whenever Poland fell to foreign powers, Poles would rebel over and over again. Admittedly, most of our uprisings turned out to be crushing defeats, but that didn’t break our spirit ‒ we would simply prepare for the next rebellion. In the end, here we are, free and prosperous."
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Amsterdude 4 years ago
This reminds me of the simple times of wearing 'inappropriate' metal t-shirts to picture day.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
This gave me a flashback to 1997 listening to "Breathe" on repeat.
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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Na Zdrowie! That's the toast my family said though not over the fence.
Tracy Danis 4 years ago
This reminds me of random pictures from Russia, but with a sense of humour
Kevin Warner 4 years ago
I wanna hang with them, see if they have any lovely, available daughters!!!
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
You get called in, you get called in. I've seen weirder in medical situations.
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Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
She can probably still run better than 90% of fat American cops.
Mazer 4 years ago
I have to say when the department I worked at encouraged women officers to add a touch of femininity to our uniforms, I doubt they had in mind the 4” beaded earrings I wore to work the next day. I passed the Chief in the hallway, his eyes popping out of his head, I stopped as I turned the corner, just in time to head him ask “okay whose responsible for those earrings!!?!? I had to laugh, I would never wear them out in the field, too easy to get them torn out of my ears.
As the last point might suggest, Poles are also courageous. "Poland was the first nation to stand up to Nazi Germany when Hitler invaded in 1939. Shortly after this attack, Poland was also invaded by the Soviet Union and for some time battled against the two great powers at once, showing tremendous courage. During World War II, the penalty for lending assistance to Jews was death. Nevertheless Poles are the most numerous national group among the Righteous Among the Nations, people decorated by Israel’s Yad Vashem Institute for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust."
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
If he is a real priest and this is real holy water and he says the right words, it counts.
Ewa Callahan 4 years ago
Maybe found on Polish social media, but the image looks like it is from USA, based on the kitchen design, plug location and the vents. No Catholic priest in Poland would ever do that.
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Dani Alexander 4 years ago
It’s so funny she didn’t even try to move the bird she just left him waiting there
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Vorknkx 4 years ago
Slavic culture photos get mixed all the time, so it is possible this is from Russia or Ukraine. Hollywood movies usually portray all Slavs as Russians anyway :P
BereniceLooM 4 years ago
I live in Galicia (Spain, not Poland) and I do the same to control the fermentation of cider, hehehe.
Mary Hiers 4 years ago
I worked with some Russians shortly after the collapse of the USSR and one of them described this process and said that colloquially they called it "Waving goodbye to Gorbachev."
All of the struggles made these people really sharp. "In the 1940s, the Soviet Union imposed communism on Poland. This system led to many absurdities such as food stores having nothing but vinegar in stock. These realities forced Poles to become resourceful. For example, the so-called 'line committee' was a solution for those who needed to wait in line for a very long time. It was possible to register your place in the queue with a committee formed by a group of volunteers, and therefore leave the line without losing your spot."
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Gerard Neaux 4 years ago
Comment funnier than the pic, you won the internet for today
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Charmwashere 4 years ago
Tbh, pretty clever considering. Better then the bitching and moaning going on in the USA.
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Kevin Warner 4 years ago
When you fall DIRECTLY INTO a "Dumb Polock Joke"; apologies to the actually Intelligent Polish people that don't fall for Fake Pandemics!
But no matter what, they remain in touch with nature. "Recently, an acquaintance of mine from abroad visited Poland and was startled to discover that, during the summer, you can get wild bilberries and blueberries for a few złotys on every street corner. In his home country, wild-grown produce is a great and pricey rarity. Meanwhile, Poles will often pick their own wild-grown fruit as well as many different kinds of edible forest mushrooms. Pretty cool considering that, coming straight from mother nature, these things are as healthy as it gets."
Sounds like a gang I'd like to meet!
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Sharrow 4 years ago
Like in that geek score test: "You mean, with another person? Then no."
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Layla Corman 4 years ago
He chose the hard route. The girls beer has a straw and would have been much easier to drink (covertly).
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GenericPanda09 4 years ago
I think the sorting hat is gonna need more time to think about this one
Amsterdude 4 years ago
Poor man is still not over the fact he barely missed out on the part after nailing his audition. The role was sadly given to Ian McKellen.
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Hotel and restaurant "Alicja"
Lance d'Boyle 4 years ago
Good for them for bringing some color and style to such a drab place.
Connie Skinner 4 years ago
Not to mention the nuclear power plant right behind the hotel
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Claudia Schmid 4 years ago
As the writing is in latin letters and not Cyrillic it's probably not in Russia
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Tomasz Adamczyk 4 years ago
If only there was a single nuclear reactor in Poland
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Aiyanna Clements 4 years ago (edited)
theres someone right underneath i can see part of his head AND IS THAT MF TAKIN A PICTURE
Layla Corman 4 years ago (edited)
I can see his head and part of his hand with a phone. It sure does look like he is! 😖 *Maybe, just maybe, she has something printed/written on the back of her shorts (a team logo, words of encouragement for the team, ect). I'm trying to think of the best in this icky situation.
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BorPand8 4 years ago
The guy ignoring everything behind him and watching the game?
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Jigsaw's Puzzle 4 years ago
I guess but taking a picture and/or staring at it is still creepy
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Magda Kielczyk 4 years ago
it's a Polish so-called fighter, Marcin Najman, who wanted to beat the crap out of some guy after some internet comments... so he challenged the guy and waited for him. Needless to say the guy didn't show up and Najman is our local meme ever since :-D 4si9kr-619...41ed3a.jpg 
Tommy 4 years ago
it has some history, though :) The person on the sculpture is Marcin Najman, Polish boxer and MMA fighter known from losing every battle for last few years, being laughed at and becoming a meme. In this situation he made a fool of himself again, while he had some argument with a journalist Krzysztof Stanowski and they were supposed to meet and fight in real life. So Najman was waiting at the place (different city), journalist never came up, but recorded a viral video fooling Naiman again. This is a sculpture of Najman wearing his characteristic jacket and sport bag. Meme 2.0 ;)
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Ewelina Rydzewska 4 years ago
The Witcher, Polish yummy sausage and beer? True☺
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Turnip and a Frog 4 years ago
And Kebab .. I take it back, that’s definitely us 😁
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Sarah Pryde 4 years ago
i kinda wanna be a part of this watch party.......food and beer and The Witcher.....
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Jihana 4 years ago
Oh I am SO envious! I think most of those mushrooms are boletus. 2021 was a terrible year for mushrooms, it was far too dry
Crossbyname 4 years ago
I'm half Polish and spent many a childhood being dragged around dark forests foraging for mushrooms.
Robert T 4 years ago
My gf is obsessed with mushrooms. When she visits Poland she goes out into the forest to collect them. She even has me stop the car if she spots a mushroom here!
Jihana 4 years ago
Yeah, that's how I do it with my father. He drives, and I shout STOP when I see mushrooms
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downbythemeadow 4 years ago (edited)
the goblin inside of me is SCREAMING. TAKE ME TO THE FOREST O POLISH ONE
Truth Monster 4 years ago
Suzy Sucks At Selling Seashells By the Seashore: Has To Take Them Home
Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
How long will they keep if dried? That might be 1 years worth of shrooms?
Random person 4 years ago
Dried, but pickled mushrooms are the best!!! They're amazing, vinegary, but soooo nice! And my grandmother makes the best *kurka* sauce
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Fred L. 4 years ago (edited)
The brand is also available in some shops in Germany. Jablko Mieta (Apple Mint) juice is really good.
CorgiGirl 4 years ago
We get it in Canada too. In the Polish shops. It's really good
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Khavrinen 4 years ago
He's in the middle of the road. Going to get a ticket parking that way.
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Droopsnoot 4 years ago
Chivalry isn't dead! Just throw his upper body clothing on a puddle to help a lady cross. Too bad the guy was very fat
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Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
at some point they have to return to their natural form --the owl and return to the forest.
Duncan Rogers 4 years ago
Those PUPILS...I'm flashing back to the late 80's and a Talking Heads concert.
Kevin Warner 4 years ago
Dude! This isn't huffing compressed air from a can, this is working at the factory that MAKES the compressed air for the keyboard cleaning cans, IN THE COMPRESSION CHAMBER!!!
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Lech Dąbrowski 4 years ago
It gets even worse - that's beer :( Color is weird, but it says 'pils' on it. Also, hate that asshole on telly.
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Michalina 4 years ago
***** *** - google it guys and you'll quickly understand why this can is there
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I'm betting he is a politician so there is no need to explain any further! Understandable
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ScarlettStorm 4 years ago
I think that's a beer. f that's a beer then, well, they must be pretty damn angry.
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Kevin Warner 4 years ago
Obvious he has NEVER had to consider alligators, caymen, or crocodiles before in his life LOL!
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Anna Banana 4 years ago
This doesn't look like a man who gets to choose the clothes he's wearing. I can't believe we're at a point where it's considered okay to post a picture like this for laughs.
Kathy Hague 4 years ago
Calm down I think the reason this photo was taken and shared here in this article is because they are showing the crazy twisted humor of the Polish people. I thought just about every single picture on here was hilarious it's supposed to be humorous
Kevin Warner 4 years ago
Funny I was gonna say democRAT Congressman from America in retirement
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Amsterdude 4 years ago
'Damn it Jakub, this is not what people put on their LinkedIn accounts. You will never find a job like this.'
Marcellus II 4 years ago
He heard Tiger King is in prison so... surely that job is open?
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Layla Corman 4 years ago
This is perfect proof for the saying l, "You're only as old as you feel".
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Gosiaatje 4 years ago (edited)
Ah, the reasons for getting your first holy communion. What a little angel :)
Vicky Z 4 years ago
When we are so broke we don't recognise money anymore..... (was also confused)
Load More Replies... Anna Banana 4 years ago
He must have been praying really hard, this amounts to over 4x the minimum (monthly) wage.
Kona Pake 4 years ago
This is what happens when you have a very large family and generous friends.
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Ewa Jabłonowska 2 years ago
Well whoever edited this countdown did a very poor job! This photo is famous because it is actual art pice made by and artis Marta Miloszka which by this picture was referring to church hypocrisy. So whoever placed this picture in this countdown did a very lousy reaserch job and didi not understand a s**t out of what he was placing here!
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Marco Conti 4 years ago
First Kim Kardashian with her champagne flute, now this guy. Stop using your body as a liquor shelf.
Kevin Warner 4 years ago
I'm just nervous watching that glass, afraid its gonna fall! Just HOW MUCH glass-in-tongue is it worth to save it from the floor?!!!
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Kuningatar Keitto 4 years ago
Check out this, this is what a lot of Polish "dairy bars" used to be like back in the communist days. The clip is from a live action movie from that times, but the theft protection is authentic and was an actual thing back then if you wanted to prevent something from getting stolen.
Load More Replies... Michalina 4 years ago
https://youtu.be/tqWymNLzY90 that was happening during elections so I guess it's the real reason. What more about this video - event though Poland has a lot of alcohol there was a huuuge shortage during first months of pandemic. So, some people had an idea to use alcohol confiscated from illegal manufacturing called bimber/moonshine. It had a higher alcohol voltage and was perfect for disinfection. After all, everything in Poland smelled as a moonshine so it wasn't so weird to see people trying to drink it as its was something they knew pretty well.
buttonpusher 4 years ago
Had to do this in hospitals in a few countries, only with sanitizer because alcoholics were stealing them to drink. Then they'd be found dead in the toilets.
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Marcellus II 4 years ago
Up- or downdrafts almost guaranteed, so should dry fast.
Load More Replies... Layla Corman 4 years ago
This isn't bothering anyone. It's not using energy. It's probably filling the hallway with that freshly washed clothes scent (I hang my clothes and I LOVE that smell!) So I would say this is a brilliant idea all the way around!
Marco Conti 4 years ago
This wasn't a rare sight in Italian apartment buildings when I was growing up. The architect sort of asked for it.
Kevin Warner 4 years ago
You know WHY Borscht is made how it is? People took what would grow where they lived and used it! Would NOT want to try causing these people trouble!!!!!
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Thomas E S Thomas 4 years ago
Looks like they are having a blessing over that day's food. Some restaurants and businesses in religious areas have a prayer in the morning before production begins. One place I worked in Salt Lake City, run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had a full fifteen minute devotional complete with prayer and singing a hymn every day before we opened. It was lovely, though a little weird.
Sharrow 4 years ago
Yes, something like that, but my guess would be that it is either a benediction ceremony for a newly opened restaurant (not uncommon in Poland, even or especially large companies do it for the PR) or the owner donated to a church-run charity and held an event for that. The person to the left is holding a large "check" presumably with a sum of money written on it.
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Mazer 4 years ago
McZesta??? Okay someone ought to do a thread on the differences in fast food items per location.
ℙ𝕦𝕣𝕣_𝕞𝕒𝕚𝕕 4 years ago
Yes, and I would like to try some of the different items that are offered in different countries. Starting with the McZesta!
Load More Replies... Ingrid Mackay 2 years ago
usually have to wait a bit to die from the food, pre-emptive funeral service
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Marcellus II 4 years ago
... and surprise, and a fanatical devotion to the pope.
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Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
This is made with food and prior to cooking? Hard to tell but possibly a pizza?
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Kuningatar Keitto 4 years ago
Anything is better than a Polish retirement home.
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Kuningatar Keitto 4 years ago (edited)
Some cultural context: the cake says "2137 years". I'm pretty sure John Paul II wouldn't be turning 2137 if he was still alive today. I'm guessing it's a reference to 21:37 (a number/time considered "holy" by many people in Poland, being his time of death. In Poland many churches and towers play "Oh, Mary, Queen of Poland", one of John Paul II's favourite songs at this time every evening) and of the song "May he/she live 100 years" which is the Polish aequivalent for "Happy birthday", but sung to a different melody and with completely different lyrics (it's a completely separate song, being sung in Poland on birthdays rather than the international "Happy birthday"). Basically, my educated guess is that someone commissioned a birthday cake for John Paul II's would-be 100th birthday, and as it would be a faux-pas to wish someone to live 100 years on their 100th birthday, they are wishing him to live for 2137 years (not literally, of course, as he's already died) as a way of saying happy birthday. It's kinda sweet in its own weird overzealous way. Oh, and the rainbow symbolises God and indicates that he's up there with the Lord now, nothing LGBT here (especially nowadays in Poland you cannot have anything LGBT anywhere, sadly).
Michał Kostrzyński 4 years ago (edited)
Where are you from? You seem to know some stuff about Poland, but not enough. Anyway, your educated guess is TERRIBLY wrong. He's definitely not as respected man as you might think. Basically John Paul II is considered a meme by the most of polish youth (definitely not a saint dude old folk would like him to be). Short 2137 definition from polish Slang explanation page: John Paul II died at 21:37. In slang, the phrase 2137 is used as a specific code for people making fun of the pope and the cult that surrounds him in Poland. For most believers, this hour is a symbol, an hour that they often see on a watch or in various random situations, which also became the object of mockery. One of the main reasons is not only the opposition to the Catholic faith itself, but also the controversy related to this pontificate, a thoughtless and uncritical approach to its many years of activity. (if your comment was an elaborate joke I deeply respect that tho)
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"Dream school"
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StormWolf 4 years ago
I agree with Ju, BP if you're gonna censor "bad" words, maybe consider censorship when it is *actually* useful?!
Erik Lawrence 4 years ago
public information should be censored? your version of useful is odd.
Load More Replies... manowce 4 years ago
it is available publicly, but it's not a public commodity! you can't post someone's photo everywhere just because they have it available on their profile. also, here it is put as a mockery. BP should take it down.
Layla Corman 4 years ago
Does anyone else find this impressive? The line up is almost seamless. So satisfying! Name DEF should have been blurred though!
Linda Lou Jett 4 years ago
This is public information. It's not as if they hacked into her social media and copied it.
yelsnia_forever 4 years ago
shut up Linda its wrong and you know it so stop denying it. bp is funny overall but has to get their act together with the whole censorship
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Aw, I used to love the comic when I was a kid! I still remember the names, too! Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, Hay-Lin. Their initials spelled out "witch".
Sam Petter 4 years ago
It's weird that this shows up in Poland, too, given that I'm pretty sure the original was in French and the English version never really got the love it deserved :(
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Layla Corman 4 years ago
Rickie- your comment wins gold the comment olympics! I can't stop laughing! 🎖🥇
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"Funeral services"
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
The undertaker has improved his service. Instead of him going door to door, people can deliver their dead at this stall.
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Russell Ellwardt 4 years ago
The lamp looks as if there is a halo coming down on him from the ceiling. The blessing works...
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Gosia Buczek 4 years ago
He's holding very popular amongst kids ice cream packaging... Yes, people were selling even packages 😐 And it wasn't easy to get hold of the ice cream itself!
BasedWang 4 years ago
thanks for this, honestly... So he is actually flexxin on em
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Lavender B. 4 years ago
The guy in the middle looks like Krzysztof Krawczyk (RIP) he was a very popular singer since the 70s
ZAPanda 4 years ago
For our non-linguists, you pronounce that something like kristof kraf-chik, I think... feel free to correct me.
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Falcon 4 years ago
I wonder why Addidas hasn't come out with a formal tracksuit 🤔 I imagine it would sell well.
Gin. No tonic 4 years ago
There's a saying that 2 stripes can only be worn at home, 3 stripes are OK to go into the city, and 4 stripes make festive "smart" suit. (It's all referring to off-brand adidas suits)
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
The bride and groom are wearing their best trainers, so it must be a wedding.
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Lech Dąbrowski 4 years ago (edited)
It's an old picture. Mousepad has logo of polish telecommunication company that doesn't exist since nineties.
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The sign says "Rent"
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
I see Walter White survived cancer and started a new life in Poland
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Hugo Raible 4 years ago
Just toxic you - you have no context, yet you immediately assume the worst.
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Maciej Zajaczkowski 4 years ago
This entire article is definitely not a good approximation of life in Poland,; in fact most of the things don't make sense.
Erik Lawrence 4 years ago
who said it would be? its funny pictures from social media. not a documentary.
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ElenaK 4 years ago (edited)
No! Apparently he lost them at an accident ,apparently at work (carpenter, butcher). Why should we talk about it?
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Łukasz Markuszewski 4 years ago
The date of pic here is important - new year's eve. The girl is probably peeling the potatoes for a trafitional Polish veggie and mayonnaise salad. This is something which you could find on every Polish table on each ocasion - birthdays, Christmas, Easter, New Year's Eve, weddings, proms - you name it :)
Aussia Towfigh 4 years ago
Why is she wearing flip-flops with tight on? I can imagine that would be uncomfortable
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Roll the potatoes in a mixture of melted butter and oil. Sprinkle with paprika and garlic powder and some salt. Bake at 350 until brown, turning once. Heaven!
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Lech Dąbrowski 4 years ago (edited)
To be honest, that's one of my better memories from school. I'm guessing that picture shows preparations to 'wigilia klasowa' - christmas eve celebration on last day of school before christmas holiday. It was an opportunity for a more laid back contact with classmates and faculty. In highschool we would add smuggled alcohol to that Pepsi and share it with some professors who seemed 'cool'.
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"Do I look cool?" Answers: Yes, No
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Eva Verde 4 years ago
Meblościanka (literally: furniture wall) for a teenager's room. Very practical set of wardrobes/shelves/drawers plus a desk for studying and doing homework. No computer, meaning the pic is from early 90s.
Anapv 4 years ago
The desk has a built-in keyboard shelf, though. Just waiting for the computer.
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What do you think ?
Łukasz Markuszewski 4 years ago (edited)
Little explanation: I am on the group of Polish Pictures Community. The aim is to gather pictures which are 'very Polish' in the way they look. So there are funny pictures, but also wholesome, sentimental, sad, everyday etc. They are not gathered to make fun. This is why there is a lot of pope (or The Pope, cause in Poland many people are obsessed with John Paul II), a lot of priests, a lot of Kaczynski, but also a lot of our mums and dads, a lot of shops we are doing groceries, streets we are walking. A little bit of absurd, a little bit of megalomania, a little bit of simple lives with addition of families making bigos and veggie salad all the time. This is Poland and these are pictures of it.
Angelar 4 years ago
I found all photos endearing - a bit more text would have been nice
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Daria Z 4 years ago
Looks almost exactly like Russia of the 1990s, minus the Pope. I'm sure these photos are not representative of the whole country.
Lech Dąbrowski 4 years ago (edited)
They are not. On polish websites we have even crazier picture compilations captioned "Russia is not a place - it's a state of mind" also not representative of russian nation either. Both share common themes - old people having fun (I consider such pics kinda wholesome), hot girls in weird situations (like that gal peeling potatoes in formal attire), some crazy drunk idiots and religious figures in the wild.
Load More Replies... Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
Except for all the pictures of Pope John Paul II, looks like Wisconsin.
Rei 4 years ago (edited)
I once wanted to buy sweets in Poland. They have a huge variety of little chocolate goodness wrapped individually and you can buy as much as you want. Since I wanted to try all of them I stuffed it all into one bag, which was then getting quite big. BIG mistake. When I went to the checkout the cashier told me they all had different prices (which were not displayed) so she had to take out all of them, count them and scan eevery single code. The row behind me was getting longer and longer. I was so embarrassed and felt so sorry for the cashier... 🙈🙈🙈 But I never made that mistake again. And the chocolates were delicious. Also: polish fireworks are super loud!!!
CorgiGirl 4 years ago
I get it that the author/photographer wanted to show "everyday life" in Poland, but really, there's got to be more to the country than this. What about city life, and well dressed people too. They can't all be fat and badly dressed.
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
I now know no more about Poland than I did before wasting my time on this post.
mx stefffffffff 4 years ago
Remember Poland banned abortions and are working to ban LGBT and leave the eu
Piotr 4 years ago
Yes, our government is bonkers but that doesn't mean all Poles are like that! This government is supported by uneducated xenophobic people that you can find anywhere in the world. Poland has a lot better people and a lot more to offer that one could assume having seen this stereotypical post.
Load More Replies... Łukasz Markuszewski 4 years ago (edited)
Little explanation: I am on the group of Polish Pictures Community. The aim is to gather pictures which are 'very Polish' in the way they look. So there are funny pictures, but also wholesome, sentimental, sad, everyday etc. They are not gathered to make fun. This is why there is a lot of pope (or The Pope, cause in Poland many people are obsessed with John Paul II), a lot of priests, a lot of Kaczynski, but also a lot of our mums and dads, a lot of shops we are doing groceries, streets we are walking. A little bit of absurd, a little bit of megalomania, a little bit of simple lives with addition of families making bigos and veggie salad all the time. This is Poland and these are pictures of it.
Angelar 4 years ago
I found all photos endearing - a bit more text would have been nice
Load More Replies... Daria Z 4 years ago
Looks almost exactly like Russia of the 1990s, minus the Pope. I'm sure these photos are not representative of the whole country.
Lech Dąbrowski 4 years ago (edited)
They are not. On polish websites we have even crazier picture compilations captioned "Russia is not a place - it's a state of mind" also not representative of russian nation either. Both share common themes - old people having fun (I consider such pics kinda wholesome), hot girls in weird situations (like that gal peeling potatoes in formal attire), some crazy drunk idiots and religious figures in the wild.
Load More Replies... Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
Except for all the pictures of Pope John Paul II, looks like Wisconsin.
Rei 4 years ago (edited)
I once wanted to buy sweets in Poland. They have a huge variety of little chocolate goodness wrapped individually and you can buy as much as you want. Since I wanted to try all of them I stuffed it all into one bag, which was then getting quite big. BIG mistake. When I went to the checkout the cashier told me they all had different prices (which were not displayed) so she had to take out all of them, count them and scan eevery single code. The row behind me was getting longer and longer. I was so embarrassed and felt so sorry for the cashier... 🙈🙈🙈 But I never made that mistake again. And the chocolates were delicious. Also: polish fireworks are super loud!!!
CorgiGirl 4 years ago
I get it that the author/photographer wanted to show "everyday life" in Poland, but really, there's got to be more to the country than this. What about city life, and well dressed people too. They can't all be fat and badly dressed.
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
I now know no more about Poland than I did before wasting my time on this post.
mx stefffffffff 4 years ago
Remember Poland banned abortions and are working to ban LGBT and leave the eu
Piotr 4 years ago
Yes, our government is bonkers but that doesn't mean all Poles are like that! This government is supported by uneducated xenophobic people that you can find anywhere in the world. Poland has a lot better people and a lot more to offer that one could assume having seen this stereotypical post.
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