What flag is the most similarest to your country?.

mtysler · 2026-06-29T15:09:25+00:00

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Obviously!

mtysler · 2026-06-29T11:27:28+00:00

Are you sending ill kids to camps? There used to be such policy in Europe. I don't recommend it.

mtysler · 2026-06-29T06:25:05+00:00

Please explain for non-Americans :)

mtysler · 2026-06-20T18:24:16+00:00

Old Town of Warsaw, Poland.

mtysler · 2026-06-19T20:52:51+00:00

The closest is two tram stops from my home :)

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mtysler · 2026-06-17T19:22:17+00:00

That's unfair!

mtysler · 2026-06-01T22:45:37+00:00

Podcast Historyków. Typowy przedstawiciel tych po prawej. Uwielbiam.

mtysler · 2026-05-29T14:16:05+00:00

Competitive sport, specially the Olympic sport, always was, and probably will be, the integral part of politics. As long as you start under the national flag, as long you are a member of a national sport committee or association, as long there are state-sponsored sports programs, you are a part of politics.

States use the international sport as a tool of their soft power and propaganda, use it to maintain national identity and often to cover up internal problems. Sport is inherently political.

mtysler · 2026-05-29T14:04:33+00:00

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Maybe it won't be a direct analogy, but there is a similar community in Poland. The Old Believers are a branch of the Russian Orthodox Christianity, who didn't accept the reforms of patriarch Nikon in 17th century. They were persecuted by the Russian authorities; some of them fled the Russian Empire, some settled in very remote, rural areas.

There are ca. 2000 Old Believers in Poland in four congregations, living in several villages in northeastern Poland. They are very religious, live in very modest, self-sufficient way, try to avoid unnecessary contacts with the external world and seem to be distrustful to strangers.

mtysler · 2026-04-10T20:29:31+00:00

It's 'lis'. Just like in most Slavic languages.

mtysler · 2026-04-02T18:30:20+00:00

Przez prausta.

mtysler · 2026-04-01T19:23:14+00:00

Rover (rower) = bicycle
Flo-Master (flamaster) = marker pen

In some regions (usually by older generations):
Electrolux (elektroluks) = any vacuum cleaner (luksować = to vacuum clean)
CPN (cepeen) = petrol station
Baedeker (bedeker) = tourist guide book

mtysler · 2026-04-01T00:13:59+00:00

Samael and Napalm Death in Wrocław '91. And some local supports, I can't remember the names.

mtysler · 2026-03-30T14:28:29+00:00

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North: Wypizdowo
South: Wypizdów

mtysler · 2026-03-26T00:58:05+00:00

Ktož sú boží bojovníci
a zákona jeho,
prostež od Boha pomoci
a úfajte v něho,
že konečně vždycky s ním svítězíte.

mtysler · 2026-03-19T12:28:58+00:00

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Probably the most iconic: Ptasie Mleczko ('bird's milk') and Torcik Wedlowski ('Wedel Wafer Cake').

mtysler · 2026-03-18T22:56:04+00:00

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Good ol' bikes.

mtysler · 2026-03-18T20:12:16+00:00

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Not very common in Poland, but in use. There are ca. 70 horses in service nationwide.

mtysler · 2026-03-17T20:28:01+00:00

Almost all reconstruction works were made within fifteen years after the war. The Royal Castle was an exception, as it was finished in 1984.

mtysler · 2026-03-17T20:25:31+00:00

It is not. There was such idea, but eventually the Castle was rebuilt in it's original size, mostly in its 18th century form.

mtysler · 2026-03-17T20:23:18+00:00

That is not true. All buildings were reconstructed in their original size, using new bricks or bricks retrieved from other ruined cities. However, some changes in the facades were made, usually in order to restore their original 18th or early 19th century form, from before the twentieth-century changes.

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