Life / GAY PARADE IN WARSAW, PL [87]

Bowie's gayest sounding one, just for the chorus and the title has to be "Boys Keep Swinging"!

Sorry, what does your Pink Floyd top 10 look like?

Life / GAY PARADE IN WARSAW, PL [87]

I said the best, not the worst.

Could I add "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell? I don't think he sings it in a gay context. The original was sung by Gloria Jones, and I think Marc Almond changed the gender to keep it straight, though...

Life / GAY PARADE IN WARSAW, PL [87]

Best gay songs?

Erin McKeown - Oh Didn't They
The Smiths - This Charming Man
David Bowie - John, I'm Only Dancing or Rebel Rebel
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

Can't think of any more. In fact, not all of these ones of very gay.

Life / GAY PARADE IN WARSAW, PL [87]

Shame, Shame, Shame - Shirley & Co.
You Make Me Feel Mighty Real - Sylvester
I Want Your Love - Chic

That sort of thing.

Okay, if not disco, how about punk? Funk? Bebop? Britpop? Ska revival? Ska revival revival? Roots reggae? Merengue? Drum n Bass? Rock n Roll? Rhythm n Blues?

Life / GAY PARADE IN WARSAW, PL [87]

Nope. Nor have I had a beanbag sent or a footstool posted.

Life / GAY PARADE IN WARSAW, PL [87]

There was, maybe still is, a periodical published under the name "Gay News".
That's "Gay News", not "Queer News", "Bender News" or "Poof Weekly".

Life / GAY PARADE IN WARSAW, PL [87]

I do remember hearing a discussion programme on the radio in which one of the guests (who was, like most of them on this programme, plugging their latest book), kept using the word 'queer', and described himself as such. That seemed not just strange, but downright queer.

Language / The Dative Case [62]


Great! What do you do with it? (Other than sklepping, of course.)

Life / GAY PARADE IN WARSAW, PL [87]

Anyone starting a thead like this knows what's going to happen.

Language / The Dative Case [62]

What's the dative then?

News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]


But standing in the way of someone, anyone, from going about something that is supposedly within the law. It makes it more sickening that this girl is already the victim of rape, (unwanted) pregnancy (with all the associated risks to her health, being still at such a young age). There is voicing of opinions, but this seems far worse.

Language / The Dative Case [62]


Can do not be used with some other case, the locative, for example?


It was the noun I was thinking more about.


A constant difficulty, highlighted by how many mistakes I hear Poles make when talking in English about going onto something that we'd go into, or to something that we'd go at, and so on.

Language / The Dative Case [62]


The next step would be "Ja sklepem" I suppose.

Anyway, so is the dative all about moving onto, into or at something, whereas one of the other cases deals with being on, in or at something?

News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]

If you disagree with a law like this one, what is a better response: to campaign, to preach and to persuade others including the powers that be that the law is wrong, or those who follow the law?

What will the church do to actually help this girl when she finally does have the baby? Criticise her even more for having a child out of wedlock?

How many times will this girl have to be a victim?

History / Are Germans going to pay for WW2? [180]


... profitable?

Travel / Is train travel recommended for tourists in Poland [14]

Do they sell this special sleeping gas at railway stations?

News / "We buy out Poland, Hungary, and Romania!" - the President of Israel [74]


There were two of them - Jack Cohen and T.E. Stockwell. Nowhere on the internet or anywhere else can I find what the initials T.E. stand for. As far as I can tell, Cohen had the ideas, Stockwell had the money. Now, Tesco is a huge evil company that will take over the world if it can, and it probably can. But only about 15 or 20 years ago, it was just another grotty supermarket, not nearly as good as Sainsbury's. It is the people who run it now who have turned it into the monster it is, not the chap who started a grocery shop, then supermarket business all those years ago. Anyone who starts a company wants it to be successful.

News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]


What kind of life is one spent chasing distressed teenage rape victims?

History / WAS WAŁĘSA A SECRET POLICE COLLABORATOR? [26]


I don't have to read this thread to know exactly what's in it.

Travel / Going to Kędzierzyn-Koźle in August [10]


Something to do with goats?

Life / Poland's youth & their way of living [16]


... became pregnant, or my favourite one: fell pregnant.

News / Deutsche Welle Claims Tabloids are Polish [40]

The Daily Mail is a British newspaper that insults British people all the time. Can German newspapers not insult Germans too? In fakt, lets all be rude and dismissive about ourselves in a blindly inaccurate way.

USA, Canada / POLISH AMERICANS AND THE 2008 US ELECTION [79]


The NuSSR will crush everyone.

Genealogy / Who to contact for restitution of land taken away by Ukranians due toWWII [7]


You didn't state who. (Is if that will make any difference).


By Ukrainians? Ukrainian people or the USSR? There is some difference.

Language / Common mistakes made by foreigners in Polish [90]

It's not that common a mistake. How many times have Polish people started such a thread when there's already another one the same somewhere else?

News / What does Poland mean to you? [66]

Poland is the taste of piwo, kielbasa and piwo. Poland is the sharp cold of winter, warmth of a hot summer and the sharp cold of another winter. Plus some other stuff.


That doesn't make any sense, but let's analyse it anyway.

Poland is a country - correct
where hordes - there may be a horde or two in Poland
toilet cleaning immigrants - in Poland? There are some immigrants in Poland, from various places, many of them keep their toilets clean.
invade my country - 1. You don't have a country, you have a hole. 2. Your country is not in Poland, therefore your post is officially...

... utter sh!te.

UK, Ireland / Poles singled out as responsible for increase in knife culture [39]

Anyone who comes from a country where there aren't any psychotic, violent nutters, say "Aye!"

UK, Ireland / Poles singled out as responsible for increase in knife culture [39]


Really? Is that our claim to fame? Why did no-one inform me? I thought we were more famous for putting milk in our tea.

News / Polish/Croatian Relations [70]


There are too many of these people in the world, but there seem to be more in some places than in others.

Does dwelling on the past really help anyone to make a better future? It seems that if you can be so busy fighting over the past, you can ignore the positive things you could be doing instead to make the future a better place.