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Not a chance IMO. The next generation will be fed the same trick. The Predator, Alien or Friday 13th sagas keep showing up years after years too just to name the obvious ones from the top of my head

Hey, Rambo 5 is in the works too, right? It's not about the Star Wars, it's a general flaw of the movie industry. They're selling three day old fish as the new fish soup. Woeful. Imagine what kind of trash they will revive in the next 20 years

The trilogy ended in 1983 IMO. The rest is just milking money from the original success. No wonder all the prequels & sequels usually suck so badly. The special effects are lipstick on a pig. What are the odds in 15-20 years time we'll have a Star Wars reboot again? It's basically unavoidable given how Hollywood has run out of fresh ideas lately.

Obviously since the original is Polish I watched the original series from 2001 back in the day and man, that sucked ass big time. Polish cinema has never made fantasy movies (it still doesn't) and it showed. Rubber dragons & foam rocks, man that was hilariously bad. Now some of our critics claim it's not that bad but almost 20 years have passed so it's a bit of nostalgia amid the Netflix version. The original actress who played the Yennefer part was 42 years old then, Netflix has cast a girl aged 23 but yeah, it's America and they target the youngsters with this series?

Zubrilova changing nationalities is a well-known fact Slightly less known is Elena Khrustaleva representing three nations during her career or Nathalie Santer competing for Belgium

Okay, I didn't remember that. I used to think mass starts was actually 10k back then

Only Eckhoff finished below 40 minutes, this must be the longest mass start for women ever? Tomasz Sikora said that Kamila Zuk told him the course was basically all mud barely covered by snow due to the persistent rain so I imagine today was the same. The pace was dog slow indeed. Janina Hettich retired in the morning so the second alternate E.Gasparin took her place. Michael Greis was checking yesterday evening if anyone will pull out since Zuk was the first alternate but nobody confirmed so the Polish team packed up early. Guess Greis was fooled by his German buddies after all

It's old news for me. I can't watch any vids on the NBC site either (or that was the case last time I checked last year).

Can't watch it. NBC probably doesn't allow vids to be viewed outside USA

I see Vlhova on the Val d'Isere DH start list at #31.

Eckhoff denies Braisaz despite 9/10!

Davidova 10/10. Vittozzi 9/10, Herrmann 8/10.

Fog is gone, we're back on.

Hmm... I know a guy from Newcastle who claims nobody gives a rat's ass about cricket. I'd say rugby is more popular than cricket in the UK

Cricket got a boost the rugby team lost the WC final Polish awards will be announced on January 4th. Stoch & R. Lewandowski are basically locked into Top 3 IMO.

I'd say Vlhova is slightly better looking than Sagan as well

Ah yes, the nu-metal - post-grunge craze of the early 00s. Just about the last time MTV still played music and the world hasn't heard about the spotify crap yet. That didn't age well though - bands like Nickelback or Creed are completely dismissed as irrelevant these days. At least Creed had the poor man's Pearl Jam rip-off vibe to them And this is 20 years old now. I feel a little old

Yeah, but we have the same people running each party for a while. Schetyna is more occupied with keeping his party leadership after he was Tusk's biggest enemy for a long time. There is nobody new in our poitics, well, maybe Zandberg but he's too radical to ever win power. L&J vs CP battle goes on for the last 15 years and people quite frankly don't care about the PR IMO.

You know best the two biggest political enemies in Poland were on the same side of the fence pre-1989. What do you expect? Outright left-wing sociallism isn't winning anything here anymore. We've had that for 40+ years and it's over. They've got 10-15% of the market and that is it. They try to play the progressive game but it doesn't move the needle in Poland whatsoever. When two centre-right-wing parties have to draw a line, Law & Justice goes into the central-controlled sociallist ideas and Civic Platform tries to appease the riches & plays the ideallistic game (which they don't believe in anyway).

Who cares about equality in sports? Let me know when we have 2 Asians, 2 Latinas, 2 Whites and 2 Blacks in the 100m dash final

If you have a smartphone (because cell phones are sooo old school) and a social media account you can be tracked down in like 20 seconds anywhere in the world. The rise of technology has made the whole security thing so irrelevant I bet even the most liberal hard-liners don't believe it's a conspiracy theory anymore.

You have to remember every company was state-owned until 1989 in Poland. Then privatisation came flying in and majority of these companies were sold for pennies and quickly folded on the open market which left hundreds of thousands people unemployed. Law & Justice speaks to those people who simply didn't get rich in the 90s and feel like only a small ammount of "elitists" made money on the privatisation in the 90s. They're not far off in their assumption, the rich always only get richer after all. Civic Platform is the party of businessmen, lawyers and doctors etc. The current head of opposition's biggest party Civic Platform was a radio station owner & a manager of a basketball club in the 90s (the club was sponsored by the radio he owned). That's a loooong way removed from being a next-door-guy which majority of the Polish society is. You ain't gonna win a single election in Poland being anti-Church and radically liberal. The most popular left-wing post-1989 politician in Poland, the former President Kwasniewski never actually dwelled on the Church matters whatsoever, he always ignored it and scored easy bonus points from the society to the point he won the 2000 re-election in a 50%+ landslide.

Polish people mostly care about the size of their wallets. Law & Justice has finally realized it hence even the opposition has said they won't take away the social transfers even though they said "the country can't afford it" when they were in power. Funny how money makes the world go round?

Polish Catholicism has lapsed a lot but it doesn't mean these lapsed Catholics support same-sex marriage and other liberal agendas. That's the big difference between some of the Western countries and Olympian's theory. Just because someone doesn't attend the mass it doesn't mean he/she supports LGBT rights! Polish people quite frankly do not care about this. We as a nation aren't as ideallistic as those liberals wants us to be. Far-right is a huge minority in Poland, Korwin-Mikke is a joke and everyone knows that. However Law & Justice appears to be strictly far-right by Western standards, in fact it's the post-1989 right-wingers who are trapped in the never-ending conflict first started by Lech Walesa (against then PM Mazowiecki). And guess what, most of the Polish society doesn't give a damn about constitution, the courts, the priests and all that jazz. That's the biggest trick, we simply do not care and that's why the liberal minds don't understand how to wrestle back the power from Law & Justice I don't attend church for several years now but I'll never support the left-wing sociallist parties. Try to figure that out!

Well, it will take at least 50-60 years before Poland even resembles the liberal Western countries. The entire generation who still remembers - even vaguely - the communist occupation will have to die first (including myself). However with Russia still doing their best Empire impression with the likes of Putin in charge that fear you find so repulsive in conservative politics will never go away IMO. Hell, UK and USA are afraid of the Russian influence too but they have the English channel and Atlantic Ocean to cover their ass. If Russia ever decides to drop the hammer guess which country will be the first to fall? Of course Poland. Russia has nuclear weapons stationed in the Kaliningrad enclave and everyone and their mother knows it Even the left-wing Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/18/kaliningrad-nuclear-bunker-russia-satellite-photos-report