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z_darius   
23 Dec 2007
Food / Polish Spirytus Recipes [14]

you shoud have "aparat"

Not metal though. All glass is best.

A recipe I've known for along time:

1 kg wallnuts picked about 1 month before their shells get hard. You need to be able to chop them with a kitchen knife.
1 kg sugar
1 liter 95% (or better) spirit.

Chop walnuts into small cubes. No peeling. Use the whole fruti. Gloves are recomended or your hands will be stained for weeks. Mix sugar, nuts and spirit in a glass container you can seal. Let stand for at least 90 days.

That's it.

Yummy, in small quantities (15 to 50 ml) great for colds . Not good to get drunk with - mega hangover.
z_darius   
22 Dec 2007
News / Will Poland become green? [122]

After all, two stroke Syrenka motor cars is not really the way forward in my book at least!

WTF are you blabbing about again.
The production of Syrenka was halted a few years before your last visit in Poland.
z_darius   
22 Dec 2007
Work / "Ethnicity" form - Polish Europeans? [77]

Do you mean that? Lot's of "hypothetical" I think....

Of course there is a lot hypothetical material. The issue though, I thought, were the prehisotric times. It;s easy to say now that Germans come from (roughly) what is now occupied by Germanic peoples.

Linguistics is one aspect only, but while the Genetics of PIE is largely unknown (understandably, if we mean a hypothetical group of people) the commonalities of some genetic traits is strikingly similar, and unusually high, at times as high as 80%.

Linguistics in itslef is only a part of the story. In this regards semantics comes to play. Who do we regard a representative of a given nation? A person who has been its part for generations? How many generations? A person who was born in an area? One who accepted and took as his own a culture, language and customs?

This is signifficant, especially when you consider that there has been a lot of mixing in the last few millenia due to migrations, and often the invader imposed the language upon those invaded (see England, Prussia, Nort and South America).
z_darius   
22 Dec 2007
Work / "Ethnicity" form - Polish Europeans? [77]

I mean we Germanics stem all from the same corner in Scandinavia....but the Slavs?

Things are not as clear cut as you would might wish. The most often accepted take is that we all (Germanic and Slac and others) do come from the same area around western Ukraine. We were not different from the outset. We changed and drifted apart.

Look for info about Proto-Indo-Europeans (PIE). There is a lot of information so I am not giving you any particular links. I know you can do your own googling.

Pay special attention to linguistics of PIE. It reveals a lot and shows common roots. Very fascinating topic.
z_darius   
22 Dec 2007
Work / "Ethnicity" form - Polish Europeans? [77]

Such a test is expensive, isn't it....

Try with this one. It's only about $100.
But beware! It may conclude you are a Tutsi or Hutu :)

nationalgeographic.com/genographic/
z_darius   
22 Dec 2007
Work / "Ethnicity" form - Polish Europeans? [77]

Has someone found a map about the wandering Slavs???

Not much wandering took place, really.
To paraphrase you-know-who, they came, they say the settled.
The matter of fact is that when Slavs came to what is now Poland, most of the area actually remained unclaimed as the Germanic types moved out so far west that Slavs lived on much of today's Eastern germany territory. They even aestablished a nice city there and called it Berlin :)
z_darius   
22 Dec 2007
Work / "Ethnicity" form - Polish Europeans? [77]

An interesting "Wanderkarte":

Oh those German "historians". We've known them since the times of Bismarck :))
z_darius   
22 Dec 2007
Work / "Ethnicity" form - Polish Europeans? [77]

Everybody knows that the Slavs wandered into Central Europe AFTER the Celts and AFTER the Germanics...

Not everybody knows that, but it's true. Except for the term "wandered into". They pushed Celtics and Germanic tribe westward.

Todays Europeans started out in western Ukraine, so it's rather an academioc question how Crow's statements about Slavs might be true.
z_darius   
22 Dec 2007
Work / "Ethnicity" form - Polish Europeans? [77]

And that's quite correct!

Actually, it isn't as todays Germany does not fully overlap with where Germanic tribes lived at the time.

Btw, one of the meanings of the word Germany is anglicized Germania, i.e. area inhabited by Germanic tribes. Therefore, to say that someone came from Germany 1600 years ago is not an incorrect statement.
z_darius   
22 Dec 2007
Feedback / "Shame the rip off companies in Poland" - new forum section suggestion [35]

F. W. Woolworth Company was the original USA based chain of five and dime stores started in 1876 in the USA :O)

True, but they are no longer prsenet here under that name. The last Woolworths store (branded Woolco) on the continent closed in Canada in mid 1990's. Now Woolworths is mostly unknown here.
z_darius   
19 Dec 2007
Feedback / Gowno, Sh.it etc. -- auto-censoring bad words on forums [20]

You missed the part that the Polish swear words article was not written by me; it was only posted by me.

I dodn't miss it. I merely observed that words were not censored. If I also quoted vulgarisms then they would be censored (unless you have some techonology that can tell a quote from direct input)

When the censoring is disabled and someone writes "fu.ck you," it will be a clear violation of the forum rules and such member is likely to be suspended.

Circumventing of autocensorship is quite commen here, and I do it too. If this is what warrants my suspension then be it, and I'll respect the decision. But I still think the rule is weird, at least within the language threads.
z_darius   
19 Dec 2007
Feedback / Gowno, Sh.it etc. -- auto-censoring bad words on forums [20]

valid point about the polish swear words but english is the standing order language here and as such is the language dominantly used to demean other members (some polish swear words are censored i believe)

I understand the concern, but since the forum owners follow their own development plans, I think they might want to consider some more lax rules in the translation forums.

As for offensive language, few would be at a loss for words if they wanted to offend others, even if vulgar expressions were unavailable.

Thanks for the reasonable answer.
z_darius   
19 Dec 2007
Feedback / Gowno, Sh.it etc. -- auto-censoring bad words on forums [20]

The site is in English, not Polish.. ;)

As far as I can see it is in both. See areas you created for people to ask about translations.

Do you really need to express yourself in this way often?

I don't express myself this way too often, but a translation is a translation.

Oh, don't miss the thread about Polish swear words. Your first post not censored. Do you really need to express yourself in this way often? ;)

So, what's the answer to the origanl question?
z_darius   
19 Dec 2007
Feedback / Gowno, Sh.it etc. -- auto-censoring bad words on forums [20]

I wonder what is the reason behind censoring English vulgar expressions, but not Polish? Isn;t that kinda funny that we need to use all kinds of tricks to explain meaning of words instead of just spelling them out?

Honestly, this is pretty wkurwiąjace ;)
z_darius   
19 Dec 2007
Life / Bloody Priests in Poland... [58]

Are you trying to tell me you took my post seriously?
Looks like you'd like to shake me violently just because you can't spot sarcasm when you see it?

Please, don't become a priest :)
z_darius   
19 Dec 2007
Life / Bloody Priests in Poland... [58]

I say leave te priest alone!
Just think about it. No holy inquisition handy, no stakes to throw a match at. Realities simply limit priests's option. He defended the almighty and his hous, he did what what was nesessary for the glory of god, his son and the holy spirit. amen.

This "violently" part is just Giles fantasy. Somebody who openly admits that he hate the church and priests is not a reliable witness.

Like a friend of mine said (while trying to wiggle himself out of jury duty): "I don't need no courts. I see a guy and I know right away if he's guilty or not"
z_darius   
18 Dec 2007
Love / Polish-Islam Relationship Union [450]

Oh sh.it, now I'm in trouble.

Hey, allah! Let's a have a drink together one day. You bring the booze I'll get some pork chops, just like mom used to make them :)
z_darius   
18 Dec 2007
Love / Polish-Islam Relationship Union [450]

and some was lucky enough to get brain in addition

and thus those who got it called the allah bluff :)
z_darius   
18 Dec 2007
Life / Is drinking water in Poland good? [96]

Please don't drink water in Poland. It has a very specific chemical composition and people die like flies after drinking just a few drops. After WW2 Poland had some 27 million people and now only... waiddaminute!
z_darius   
17 Dec 2007
UK, Ireland / Anti-Polish sentiment of England [253]

I am anti-disco polo though.

My daughter got herself a new boyfriend a few months ago. He's Polish and he tried to get here to like disco-polo. She laughed, the boy no longer listens to that piece of ^&%%$#. I'm proud of my her :)

Now they listen to the like of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and similar.
z_darius   
17 Dec 2007
Love / How to go about dating a polish girfriend? [27]

Material things don't mean much to me, I'd easily give up everything I've got in exchange for that girl who just wants me.

Wrong.
Before you reach the destination someone will steal the rolex and the cash, and you will be lucky if you can still recognize yourself in the mirror the next morning.

I know if I go out wearing my rolex, with a wod of cash in my pocket, my mobile phones and iPod then there'll be a certain type of girl that will want to stick around.

How much you got? :)