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Meet the Polish LARPers Who Pretend to Be American
Vice.com ^ | June 16, 2022 | Nina Zabicka

Posted on 08/08/2022 9:13:23 AM PDT by lowbridge

By day, Bartosz Bruski works in computer forensics, but in his down time, the 29-year-old unwinds by heading to a trailer park outside Warsaw, where he directs a group of around 60 Polish people who pretend to be ordinary Americans – people from Ohio, to be exact. 

You might think LARPing (short for live action role play) basically means a bunch of people dressed in medieval outfits, recreating historical battles. Instead, Bartek and his fellow LARP enthusiasts turn a peaceful holiday resort in a Polish forest into an American trailer park, with dozens of participants who stay in character with their assigned family, living at their assigned trailer home for 28 hours at a time.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: america; fantasists; larpers; nerds; poland; weirdos
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To: metmom

It’s completely fake if there is not a meth lab or two.


21 posted on 08/08/2022 10:15:29 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: dljordan

Does Bill Clinton count?


22 posted on 08/08/2022 10:16:49 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Cultural elder -- problem is, that only counts for every other culture)
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To: lowbridge

Sounds like the plot of Nelson DeMille’s “Charm School”.


23 posted on 08/08/2022 10:22:41 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: lowbridge

I didn’t see a car , up on blocks , without the wheels.


24 posted on 08/08/2022 10:23:27 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: Leep

These Poles are more “American” than most Democrats.


25 posted on 08/08/2022 10:23:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

That couple sitting in a car would be sitting in a pickup truck in America.


26 posted on 08/08/2022 10:24:11 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: lowbridge

That’s nothing, there are tons of Democrats who pretend to be Jewish.

They even purport to speak for actual observant Jews. You can tell they are fake because everything they say and do is antithetical to the Torah.

I understand there are Democrats who pretend to be Catholic, too.


27 posted on 08/08/2022 10:25:54 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: DesertRhino
Polack jokes didn’t just fall outta the sky. There was good reason for them. Basically Poles are a less efficient German. That isn’t a complement.

My long term understanding is that Polack jokes were created by the Nazis as propaganda to undermine stiff Polish resistance. The story about Polish cavalry charging tanks is also a bit of Nazi propaganda and is absolutely not true in the way it is intended to be believed.

Yes, Polish Cavalry did attack German tanks, but they knew what a tank was and they used anti-tank rifles. The horses gave them better mobility than soldiers running on the ground. They would ambush Nazi tanks and then run.

Goebbels came up with the propaganda to make Polacks the butt of jokes.

I don't know any Poles personally, but from what i've seen of their history, they have been a force to be reckoned with. I think they may be as good or better than Germans, but they were clearly outnumbered in WWII.

28 posted on 08/08/2022 10:29:29 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: KC_for_Freedom

When we got expelled from Gush Katif (Google for example of why I have zero tolerance for Palestinian appeasers) we were stuck in government trailers for a while.

Truly awful. Part of why I am a semi ex pat in the USA.


29 posted on 08/08/2022 10:30:27 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca

:)


30 posted on 08/08/2022 10:31:20 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DesertRhino

Poland has the highest IQ average of any European county.

A cynic would say this is due to immigration to and from Europe.


31 posted on 08/08/2022 10:32:38 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: dljordan
You've never been to Mississippi. :)
32 posted on 08/08/2022 10:33:24 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: ConservativeMind

“There is nothing bad about trailer parks.”

There didn’t used to be. Then came Oxy and Meth


33 posted on 08/08/2022 10:44:37 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: ConservativeMind

There is nothing bad about trailer parks.

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Until a tornado happens by.


34 posted on 08/08/2022 10:48:55 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58

Poland gets tornadoes, rarely, but they do have them.


35 posted on 08/08/2022 10:50:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

So the Poles are basically ripping on and making fun of MAGAs ?


36 posted on 08/08/2022 10:52:12 AM PDT by AirForceVet1988 ("As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough.")
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To: lowbridge

Those are not people, they’re “hosts”. It’s a new theme park by the folks who brought you West World. “Trailer Trash World”!


37 posted on 08/08/2022 10:52:13 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: AirForceVet1988

I think you’re reading too much into it.


38 posted on 08/08/2022 10:54:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DiogenesLamp
The Winged Hussars were Polish.
39 posted on 08/08/2022 11:00:59 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain
Exactly who I meant when I referred to their history. They saved Europe at least twice.

The Siege of Vienna was the first time. The Polish-Soviet war in the 1920s was the second time Poland saved Europe.

40 posted on 08/08/2022 11:07:29 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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