Polish oddities

06.09.05, 13:54
Hi people!

Few days ago while driving my moving sauna - my car doesn't have air
conditioning and it’s painted in black - in direction to the beautiful
village of Bakowa Gora and almost sandwiched between two huge TIR trucks I
saw a very British double decker in the road!

I couldn't believe in this mirage and when approching I saw something even
more shocking.

Giant Lepper posters in front and in the sides of the bus, music "disko polo"
was pouring together with some deformed words going out from the speakers.

I recall an article in the magazine "Classic & Sports car" about the
importance of keeping the "double deckers" in great Albion as a sort
of "rolling museum", one of the great supporters of this was an English
engineer who knew everything about them, he passed away some years ago and
didn’t manage to fulfill his dream.

How it is possible for this buses to be used for such a thing as politics?

Anyway was and odditie.

Do you have more?
    • dziobakowa Re: Polish oddities 06.09.05, 17:07
      ugh, lepper's posters and disco-polo... ;]

      if you go to the polish seaside in summer (esp. popular touristic places, like ustka or mielno), you'll see more of those. i mean - double-deckers, not lepper's posters. ;] they go around, with loud music playing, people dancing and stuff, inviting people to the parties and clubs. i guess the idea is just to catch the eye - double-deckers are not something you see very often in poland (although i think they have some double-decker city buses in jaworzno?), so people notice them, and that makes them a good way to advertise something....
      • usenetposts Re: Polish oddities 07.09.05, 17:24
        There was a double decker from London parked outside the Sheraton in Warsaw
        today with one of the minor presidential candidates on it.

        What is he saying? That as President he would make Poland more like Britain?

        But how could he then still be president?
    • usenetposts Re: Polish oddities 07.09.05, 17:27
      The amusing thing about Lepper's posters is the totally shagged-out expression
      on his orange face. Then next to the tangerine persona is the motto "A man with
      a character". Wot a larf. I can almost see him with a character - a cartoon
      character as a puppet next to him. He would have made a good foil for Sooty and
      Sweep or Basil Brush on children's hour. "What's that Sooty? The SLD have been
      involved in yet another financial scandal, you say? Naughty SLD!"
      • bartis_ervin Re: Polish oddities 07.09.05, 18:24

        Not far from our house there was a Lepper poster. He really had character: he
        had Dracula teethsmile Unfortunately they took it of before I took a photo...

        Until now I have a Kaczynski with Hitler moustache and some pink pijamas next to
        him and Giertych with big (I would say) Hungarian kind of moustache.

        I decided to make a collection with "moustached" presidential candidates.
        Maybe there is one in your neighbourhood? Let me knowsmile

        Ervin
        • usenetposts Re: Polish oddities 08.09.05, 12:25
          bartis_ervin napisał:

          >
          > Not far from our house there was a Lepper poster. He really had character: he
          > had Dracula teethsmile Unfortunately they took it of before I took a photo...
          >
          > Until now I have a Kaczynski with Hitler moustache and some pink pijamas next
          t
          > o
          > him and Giertych with big (I would say) Hungarian kind of moustache.
          >
          > I decided to make a collection with "moustached" presidential candidates.
          > Maybe there is one in your neighbourhood? Let me knowsmile
          >
          > Ervin


          Actually, the various defacements of presendential posters would make for a
          very amusing website. I'd be happy to host a gallery of them if anyone has some
          good digital shots and nowhere to put them. Also, defacements made actually
          using software on an electronic original are fair game as well. At least they
          don't lead to furthering graffiti, which other than on posters, which I think
          are fair game for the odd amusing addition, I don't like.
      • ianek70 Re: Leper's character 07.09.05, 19:00
        Near me, there's a wall with three huge election posters showing our favourite
        Orangeman, a certain pompous shortarse and a smug, spiteful, egotistical Nazi
        smiling for the first and only time in his short life (he's 2 years younger
        than Kylie Minogue).
        So in this context, we can say that Leper does at least have some character.
        It's all relative...
        • bartis_ervin Re: Leper's character 07.09.05, 19:08

          Why you don't use names? It is not illegal! I've been here for just a short
          while and for e.g. I have no idea who do you mean by "certain pompous shortarse".

          I heard some story that Lepper's right hand once said that Talibans landed in
          Mazury and if I remember well some virus was involve too. Does anyone know the
          whole story?

          Ervin
          • kylie1 Re: Leper's character 07.09.05, 21:42
            Perhaps Mazury as their training camp? smile Boy, the only problem is their dark
            skinned "mugs" stick out like a sore thumb...

            smile
            • portulaco Re: Leper's character 08.09.05, 09:54
              Kylie said: "Boy, the only problem is their dark
              skinned "mugs" stick out like a sore thumb..."

              Sorry I don't understand what do you mean, can you use different words?

              Thank you.
              • kylie1 Re: Leper's character 09.09.05, 01:11
                I was making a reference to the color of their skin, facial features, hair
                color and such. They just wouldn't blend it very well with the rest.
                I was just joking. smile
          • usenetposts Re: Leper's character 08.09.05, 12:22
            "A certain pompous shortarse" is not too difficult to work out if you've ever
            stood next to him. He must have meant Kaczynski.

            I can only assume that the third character was the younger Giertych.
          • ianek70 Re: Leper's character 08.09.05, 13:01
            bartis_ervin napisał:

            > Why you don't use names? It is not illegal!

            I know, but it's rude. If I mentioned the pompous shortarse by name then his
            mother, Mrs. Kaczyńska, would be upset.
            • bartis_ervin Re: Leper's character 08.09.05, 15:22

              Maybe his mother thinks the samesmile

              Ervin
              • portulaco Re: Leper's character 09.09.05, 11:06
                Kaczynski! Somebody glued very nicely in this Ogłoszenia panel next to the main
                door in my apartment his photo!

                I think it was written something like, you're not alone... we're here to help
                you, vote in samoobrona, vote Kaczynski.

                Next to this touching message was the photo of a men looking very much like
                this black devils in the mediavel Bosh paintings apart from the lollipop tie.
                • usenetposts Re: Leper's character 09.09.05, 13:25
                  You are thinking of Lepper - welcome to the colony!
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