Feedback / Gowno, Sh.it etc. -- auto-censoring bad words on forums [20]

Being able to use swear-words in a grown-up manner is the sign of a well-adjusted, totally non ****ed-up society. I think you know what I mean, but if I just put the word ********, you might not really grasp what I'm trying to say.

There are words that don't get through even though they are not rude - ********** for example because within this harmless word, acceptable in front of children and the frail, is a rather unpleasant racial term of abuse.

On the other hand, this American-based site has no problem I have spotted so far with bollocks or felch (the latter being one of the most unpleasant acts that can be described in just one word).

edit: Will I see you next tuesday?

edit again: Furthermore, not all swear-words mean something negative. May I mention zajebista / zajebiscie?

UK, Ireland / Poles in Hatfield and Luton!?!?! [17]


He must be having a bad acid trip.
He should try lying down in a darkened room until the voices go away.

extra extra read all about it:
Noimagination, you're not even in Hatifeld or Luton, so what's it got to do with you?

UK, Ireland / Poles in Hatfield and Luton!?!?! [17]


Which is something you do when tidying your room?

USA, Canada / Are you thinking of overstaying your visa in the US? [7]

Iceland a part of the axis of evil, perhaps.

It makes you wonder what kind of person decides that shackling someone like this by their hand and feet is an appropriate thing to do. It also makes me wonder about karma. Does someone who ill-treats someone like this have such a petty existence they feel the need to hurt others. The fact that it seems to be part of a system only makes it worse. Just obeying orders eh?

I've already been put off going to the US because of something someone said last night about prices not including tax, so it won't make any difference to me personally.

Food / practical way to reheat pierogi [12]

Some people believe that microwave ovens are the work of the devil.

News / Polish people (and language) spreading all over the world? [25]


Count the Anglo-Saxon words in English.
Then also observe what happens to the English language and its position in the world in the future.

Life / Bloody Priests in Poland... [58]


An eye for an eye - the priest should have waited for a really inconvenient moment for those kids then disrupted them by running around and singing.

Love / What do Polish Girls think about the piano and Chopin's music? [24]

So if I could arrange a bit of Chopin on the banjo, I could be on to a winner next time I'm over there on holiday.

Failing that it would have to be banjo disco polo (my mind has just warped so far it is now sprained).

News / The most useless things in Poland [140]


That has actually put me off going there. Right - I'm going to unpack my bags right now and plan a trip somewhere else instead.

UK, Ireland / Anti-Polish sentiment of England [253]


at its most excruciating more like.

edit: Welcome all to a fresh page. Maybe there will be joking and laughter. Maybe there will be trolls.
By the way, we're talking about disco polo / Polish musical comedy just now.

UK, Ireland / Anti-Polish sentiment of England [253]


But we're Vikings and stuff too.

I'm not anti-Polish and I'm English.
I am anti-disco polo though.

Love / How to go about dating a polish girfriend? [27]

Dendrochronology?
Radio Carbon Dating?

Love / do polish women make good wives as opposed to their western counter part? [29]


"Darling, once you've dropped the kids off, cooked the dinner, cleaned the kitchen and the bathroom, I want you to take the emu for a walk."

"The emu? That's the straw that will break the camel's back."

"And can you mend the camel - its back seems to be broken."

Feedback / It won't let me post a follow-up message after my own message [11]


Yes. About a week ago there were 3 or 4 threads about this.

What happened was the new system FAILED and didn't allow some people to post even when there was no previous post to edit. I've had no problems since.

The actual idea is not a bad one. It saves one poster posting post after post successively. Crikey! I didn't realise I could post 'post' so many times in one post!

Life / New skyscraper in Warsaw... [58]


But variety is the spice of life. Ask many people what they think of modern architecture and they turn their noses up, but somewhere like London, they build the gherkin (Swiss Rey tower) and amongst all the old and the new buildings in the skyline, it fits in perfectly and it didn't take very long at all for it to become loved and cherished. As long as the old and the new can stand side by side without disrupting eachother, it's all good.

UK, Ireland / Poles in Blackpool, Manchester, Leicester, Peterboro, L'pool, B'ham,Luton [5]

Non-members, ie. visitors don't get their details put up in the same way.

What about:

> Swindon
> Shoeburyness
> North Berwick
> Clackmannan
> Bangor
> Letchworth Garden Town

????

Language / Polish Sentence With The Letter S Lots Of Times [13]


That word's got the most s in it from that list, and there are only 2! edit: 3 when including the c.
Sassafras, being the internationally recognised name of a tree, must somehow be useable in Polish, so it's still in pole position.

What I need is a sentence with lots of ssssss in Polish.
Then I get a certain someone to read it, followed by a similar sentence in English.

This chap only has a lisp in English and I'm not sure why. Luckily he has a sense of humour in both.


Thanks.
I don't entirely understand it. Is that to be expected?

History / Should Germany claim to be the victims in Poland? [510]


Your nation may be good to you or not. I love my country for all that is good about it and despite its problems. Does that make me nationalist? Or does this word have something to do with the people who make up that nation?

Patriotism - ah, now is that a blind sense of duty to the powers that be?

Heritage - something entirely different. As I have said before, the people, events, achievements of the past are there to be appreciated, respected and are there to be built upon.

But if I were to be proud of how well my neighbour did his car up or how my brother plays bass guitar, I'm stealing something of someone else's.

History / Should Germany claim to be the victims in Poland? [510]


Yes, and thankyou for clarifying your position.

History / Should Germany claim to be the victims in Poland? [510]


Speak for yourself.


They are things I appreciate, maybe even respect.
If I want to take pride, it is in what I have done.


My heritage. Is that my family? My town? My country? My continent? People of a similar profession to myself or political persuasion? All of humanity?

History / Should Germany claim to be the victims in Poland? [510]


So you admit to taking pride in things you yourself have not actually done yourself.


How many people were criminalised?
Unanswerable question.

History / Should Germany claim to be the victims in Poland? [510]


I keep reading about pride.
Pride in your own acheivements, or are you using other people's acheivements for your pride?

UK, Ireland / Polish towns/cities/villages twinned with UK ones [30]

Coventry is twinned with Dresden as well as Warsaw. Anywhere else that came out particularly badly in WWII? (Oh no! Don't mention the war!)

UK, Ireland / Polish towns/cities/villages twinned with UK ones [30]

Żywiec - Adur (somewhere near Brighton and Worthing), Sussex
Krynicia - Amersham, Buckinghamshire (don't know anything special about this place)
Włocławek - Bedford, umm... Bedforshire.


'The Athens of the North', or as some have put it 'The Rekjavik of the South.' (or is that Birmingham?


The Edinburgh of the East?

Language / Polish Sentence With The Letter S Lots Of Times [13]

Hmmm. I couldn't really find what I was after there.
Sassafras suspense science sinks sissy's cistern soap system.
That's full of the sound I'm after, but alas! Wrong language.

News / Polish people (and language) spreading all over the world? [25]


I was merely mentioning the fact that more than just Poles are speaking Polish. What makes you think I was suggesting that this gives it any official status? I am aware of the connections between Poland and Lithuania, and I realise that some people from Lithuania may be ethnically Russian, Polish or maybe even something else, a small part of that country's USSR legacy.

UK, Ireland / Immigrants trigger Irish rethink [71]


They sing carols before being bludgeoned and eaten?


No-one can help but be biased. Some people just have less awareness of their bias. I'd say at least the bias of the BBC tends to differ from much of the rest of the media.

UK, Ireland / British throwing food to trashes... [26]

I can imagine what the reasons they give for this are, but then it is just as easy to find ways round it, even if they are not always successful.

Terrorism by food.
Importation of bird flu / whatever the latest scare is at the time.
Petty-minded jealousy of other countries' better food cultures.

Does hand-luggage count? Probably.
I've had some delicious kiełbasa brought over for me.
I also didn't finish my sandwiches before reaching Dover last time on the way back. They didn't get spotted (along with the illegally imported Russian fags (only joking... or am I? Yes... I am joking, but am I really joking?)).

edit: I'm waiting now for an American to ask why I was bringing Russian homosexuals into the UK. Look it up in the dictionary first please - I'm not that dodgy!

UK, Ireland / British throwing food to trashes... [26]


What the blazes? I hate to see good food being wasted and I'm going to be writing to my MP.


I have said more than enough on left/right handedness of cars.