Feedback / Forum suggestion: What about Polonia - Ireland? [65]

We have a member living in Belgium (if he's still around)

Polonia - Flanders
Polonia - Walloonia

Feedback / Forum suggestion: What about Polonia - Ireland? [65]


Is google something you drive?
When you drive it, do you need goggles?
Aren't draught animals required these days?
Who needs google anyway?

Feedback / Forum suggestion: What about Polonia - Ireland? [65]


Cambria not good enough, eh?

Feedback / Forum suggestion: What about Polonia - Ireland? [65]


Does the UK really exist?
There is no king.
It is the UQ.

Feedback / Forum suggestion: What about Polonia - Ireland? [65]

Polonia - Northamptonshire
Polonia - Caithness & Sutherland
Polonia - Clackmannanshire
Polonia - County Mayo
Polonia - St. Kilda

The least sensible so far.

Feedback / Forum suggestion: What about Polonia - Ireland? [65]


and Northern Ireland - that's the United Kingdom.
You listed the parts of Great Britain.

Feedback / Forum suggestion: What about Polonia - Ireland? [65]

If a section was called 'Polonia - Ireland', would it show up in web-searches and thererfore possibly bring more people in?

Feedback / Forum suggestion: What about Polonia - Ireland? [65]

Groups of islands often have a name with the suffix -nesia.
My favourite example is Macaronesia (Madeira, Azores, Canaries).
I do not know of such a name for this northwest corner of Europe that keeps everyone in Britain and Ireland happy.

News / Things you might not know about Poland [76]


Who were the Prussians?
The Old Prussians were Baltic people, speaking a language close to Lithuanian and Latvian.
Prussians became Germanicsed, maybe some became Polonicised.
Where does that put our old mate Copernicus (nice Latinised name there)?
Does anyone today stand up and say 'I am a Prussian.'?

Food / Horse Meat - popular in Poland? [36]

Yes, but I've tasted better.
Epoisses is good for a powerful cheese, but for washed rind I prefer Ardrahan.

Food / Is lamb big in Poland? [53]


Sometimes it just says 'Meat Curry'. I never trust that one.

Food / Horse Meat - popular in Poland? [36]

Why people eat other lovely, intelligent, useful, and above all cute animals and not horses for some of those reasons, is a mystery to me.

Oxen - powerful, mighty beast!
Pigs are certainly very clever.
Sheep - like little clouds all over the hillsides.
Goats - they share a similar wily nature to many human beings.
Donkeys, well, they're megacute.

Food / Horse Meat - popular in Poland? [36]

Snails are eaten in France, Spain, probably vast swathes of the rest of the world.
They're definately not big in the UK.
How about in Poland?

Alright! Alright! I know they're not horses, but something has been started here...


The things they do to attract the lady goats.
Goats are one of the coolest animals in the world. Don't get me wrong!
The term I learnt was something to do with... no it's just not right to post it here.
Where's the Swear-words thread?

News / Is the E.U. good for Poland?? [180]


Not democracy as we know it, but Ancient Greece?

The EU has much room for improvement, but it is better that it is there.

Food / Horse Meat - popular in Poland? [36]


This is going off the equine subject matter.

However, one of the first things I ever learnt in Polish was something fairly disgusting about billy goats.

Food / Horse Meat - popular in Poland? [36]


Well, milk from cows and goats is fine - include sheep in that list definately for cheese-making.
Horse, Camel (see Mauritian Cheese)...
You'd really have to try it first (or ask someone who has - get a second opinion maybe).


Delicious - like a little sea-creature.

Food / Horse Meat - popular in Poland? [36]


Perhaps not knowingly.
I know this is from another thread, but...


I've eaten quite a few of these. It never occurred to me to read the ingredients list.
It wouldn't have changed my mind about them though.

Food / Is lamb big in Poland? [53]


But I had read that kebab shops there are run by Muslims.
Curious.

UK, Ireland / What will the Polish give the UK? [58]

A nice, shiny finish.

edit: I think that post was for the other polish forum.

Feedback / Pictures in Private Messages [9]


Good answer.

News / British moved to POLAND on BBC tonight [74]


He hasn't done anything funny since Monty Python.
Ripping Yarns was good.

UK, Ireland / What will the Polish give the UK? [58]

How can business and government benefit and not anyone else?

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]


Lots of things happen on UK soil that don't affect you.

Life / Opinions about Radio Maryja [134]

uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maryja

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]


You think the education system in the UK is the best?
Is the NHS really so fantastic? Look at hospital closures, number of GPs per head of population, usage of the private sector, how medical students are funded and what then happens to them...


Being a member of the EU has many benefits, such as
trading relations with other EU countries - much more costly without membership,
making decisions about the EU and within the EU,
political cohesion and stability within Europe,
EU funding for projects, and into poorer areas neglected at local and national levels,
EU laws strengthening our civil liberties, eg. minimum wage,
investment from outside the EU, into the EU, using the UK as a base,
etc. etc.

For those who hark back to the glory days, when were they:
1970s - strikes, strikes and more strikes
1950s - the age of austerity, rationing, everyone in dull grey clothes
1930s - mass unempolyment, riots
Victorian era - children working up chimneys, etc. etc.
The Mediaeval - say no more
When they built Stonehenge
??

Oh, and what is the Asian community?
Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Atheists...
Indian origin, Punjabi origin, Bangladeshi origin, Sri Lankan...
Well to do families, poor families...
Recent immigrants, 2nd generation, 3rd...

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]

T2007, it is obvious you do not understand some things from the arguments you make that are clearly lacking in understanding of how things work.

You still haven't said anything about how you feel about EU citizens voting in UK elections.
I am not just winding you up.

UK, Ireland / What will the Polish give the UK? [58]

You might expect to see one or two lines of sliced German sausage in supermarkets replaced with Polish ones.

As for effects on the language - most of the foreign additions to the English language have come from cultures we have tried to emulate (eg. American, French), places we conquered (India) or further back, people who invaded us (Norman French, Vikings). The Latin influences are a fairly typical thing across Europe, although we have a habit of using foreign words because we think they sound better, even if we can't pronounce them.

Most English people couldn't pronounce the word 'k****'. That would be an obvious swap for the Polish taking on the words 'sorry' and 'f***'.