News / Poland elected temporary member of the UN Security Council [9]


Since when is a rubber-stamp vote democratic? That one dissenting voice saved the honour of the Brussels-dictated single-candidate election. If the EU were as democratic as they claim to be, there would be a ban on all elections in which a single candidate stood unopposed.

News / Poland elected temporary member of the UN Security Council [9]


PiSlamic is such a moron he probably doesn't know that 190 of 192 countires voted for Poland's membership. One wonders what twisted logic and distorted rhetoric PiSlamic and his beloved losers' club will use to discredit and undermine the vote?

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


Macierewicz gets routinely badmouthed and singled out for particular abuse by the "total oppositon" because there are those in their midst who fear a repeat of the "teczki" episode that might expose their PRL-era sins. The younger opposition supporters, who had played no part in the pre-1989 period, simply go with the flow. It's as simple as that.

Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]

@DominicB
Many dzięks!

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


It was Kopacz played a ghoulish role by watching the macabre proceedings close up so she knew what was going on and then, rather than being revolted and disgusted, she and Tusk and other PO stooges including Komorowski thanked the "noble" Muscovites for their "kind assistance" and "professional handling" of the situation.

One wonders who authorised her to promise not to have the coffins opened in Warsaw? Hopefully all that information will soon be made public.

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


Those who claimed to be loyal PZPR communists merely rebadged themselves into social democrats and businessmen. The SB types in particular used their "skills" and contacts to set up private detective, security and debt-collecting agencies and nearly all of them made the transfer from PRL to post-commie Poland unscathed with no accountability for their commie-era misdeeds and crimes, And all of them support the KOD/PO losers' camp. If that company appeals to you, fine -- go for it!

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Thanks but what is KRK?

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


Kopacz quote: Even the tineist body fragment was careully DNA tested. OK, body fragments can get lost, but what about an extaneous, head, hand or leg? Are you going to tell us that the president or others were ever suspected of having 3 hands or an extra pelvis. What about the two army chaplains? Or Anna Walnetynowicz or many others? Are you going to again beocme a PO mouthpiece and try explain away such gross infractions and Kopacz's devil-may-care lies? What about the cigarette butts and trash added to the coffins? Wasn't that a deliberate act of Muscovite hutzpah, hooliganism and bestiality? You probably don't even realise what a blinkered spokesman for the post-commie losers camp you have become!

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


Can anything be more ghoulish and disrespecxtfulk than this! Pieces of two other bodies were found in the coffin of Polish President Lech Kaczyński, who died in the 2010 Smolensk air disaster, Deputy Prosecutor General Marek Pasionek reported. Andwhat about Kopacz who lied through her teeth that she had personally supervised the Moscow procdeedings and found everythng to be proper, professional and above board. Woudl you want your father buried in a coffin with someone else' body parts?

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Are those available in Warsaw?

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


A cursory glance at any Tesco, Carrefour, Leroy Merlin, LeClerc, fancy cinemas, hotels and retsurant chains as well as the office towers housing foreign corporations shows that these are not ramshackle sheds or lean-tos becuase the woudl scare off the customers they want to fleece. But the spread between the haves and havenots as regards enjoyng the fruits of transformation has grown rather than decreased, Family 500+ may have changed that but only slightly. But not thanks to the psot-commie clique!


One of thre preisdnetial prerogatives is found in:
Art. 139.
Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej stosuje prawo łaski. Prawa łaski nie stosuje się do osób skazanych przez Trybunał Stanu. The only stated restriction is that it does not pertain to State Tribunal ruligns. Full stop.


How can you call him a crikinal when you just said one is of guilty only after a final court judgement has been handed down?

Besides, most of the judicial mafia from Rzepliński to Gersdorf are unconstitutional because judges are to be independent, impartial, apolitical, non-partisan and objective. In actuality, they are highly politicised and biased in favour of one side of the Polish-Polish dispute. The constitution does not say professional, legal, medical, academic and showbiz dynasties are to enjoy special privileges not available to "ordinary mortals" and support only the post-commie mafia, but they do. That's why President Duda is right in wanting a new constitution that will get rid of the ambiguities of the present one and sweep away the monopolistic leftist liberal slime.

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


A normal, nice, polite government would have been helpless in the wake of the 8-year scamster regime serving its own elitist clique and foreign interest groups at the expense of the naiton as a whole. Billions are now being recovered as VAT fraud schemes are exposed around the country to which the former regime turned a blind eye, if not actually sharing in the spoils. The present govt had to and still has to sweep away the grime, crud and residue as well as the shakers nad movers of widespread corruption and cannot be expected to always function in kid gloves. The losers club have many if not most of the far-from-independent, politically biased courts and complaisant judges on their side, including the Supreme Court. The latter recently tried to undermine the clemency granted to corruption-basher Mariusz Kamiński, but shot themselves in the foot. The Constitution does not specify at what stage of court proceedings clemency can be granted. The only proviso is that someone sentenced by the Tribunal of State is not entitled to clemency. Those banging on about "the rule of law" conveniently sidestep it when it doesn't serve their PiS-bashing efforts. If you can rise above things for a moment, you can see how every possible legal ruse and loophole is being used to bring down the democratically elected government. And they do want to topple it by hook or by crook -- that is obvious to everyone. It is also obvious why -- to restore the comfy, poshy status quo the elitist post-communist clique had enjoyed until 2015.

Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]


It's hard ot believe that every corner fish & chip shop in the British Isles uses only fresh fish. There must be ones that use frozen fillets.

Hake is avialble in Poland -- it's called morszczuk (literally: sea pike), there is also mintaj (pollock), but I haven't seen haddock.
Are there any fish & chip chains or are they all family-owned shops?

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


Strange statement from someone who notoriously sides with one combatant of the Polish-Polish conflict. In any row -- poltical, diplomatic, marital or whatever -- only a horse-blinkered partisan would suggest only one side is always 100% right and the other 100% wrong. But, like members of the losers' club, you have nit-picked and tried to find holes in every single utterance, plan, project or act by Poland's democratically elected government. At least PF's other pro-PO partisans do not claim not to support or defend any party.

Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]


Funny no fish & chips chain have taken root in Poland. Tasty, quick, easy, inexpensive -- I'm sure they would have caught on. Far superior and much healthier fare (in spite of being fried) than those cholesterol-rich greaseburgrers and other Big Macs! Lately they've come up with a version that adds fried bacon and cheese to the whole artery-clogging mess.

Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]


I believe blintzes is hte Jewish (Yiddish) term for naleśniki. Bliny are made with buckwheat flour and are quite dark. On the other hand, food terms are tossed about rather casually if not flippantly and vary from place to palce, even from family to family.

Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]


Battered fish is very good. Fresh fish is rolled in flour and then dipped in batter and fried. Very nice. Try it some time. The batter for this is plain, contains no sugar or any sweet-dish seasoning such as vanilla or cinnamon..

Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]


I've been called worse. But not to worry -- I won't go crybabying and sntiching to mods like a certain hairless and hapless poster we all (unfortunately) know. Here's a hint: "MODS -- I'm the vicitm of ad hom trolling, I've been insxurlted, she's picking on me, help me, sob-sob, boo-hoo!" Ugggh!!!

Re pancakes, yes the beaten whites act as a natural leavening agent. And a much milder tasting one than the baking powder or soda.

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


Call it a crash, but there was fire all over the area so something msut have set it off.
Kopacz had no power and couldn't have agreed to anything without orders
from Tuskland's HQ. So that spreads the błame to Tusk himself and whoever else in his govt was involved, surely Arabski, Sikorski and Komorowski. But not to worry -- there's plenty of room on the State Tribunal's "ława oskarżonych" (defendants' bench) for all the PO wrong-doers involved.

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Does the world exist for you without links? She said that in 2010 and it was shown on the telly. Contact them if you don't believe it. I reckon it's only natural for PF's LL to suspect everyone else of constantly lying too.

@Ironside
Many dzienks for the link, Ironside. That should give him something to chew on!

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Don't recall Krauts ever being mentioned in this context. Admit it -- you made it up for added effect. But the Rooskies -- we wouldn't put it past them knowing their long record of wanton brutality, bestiality and stonewalling.

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Any reaspomnable person will garee.But why then did Kopacz go onrecord as saying the crahs site was dug up to a depth of one metre, everything was sifted through screens and each and every body part, even the tiniest fragment, was DNA-tested. One could accept that some body parts were obliterated and went missing in the blast, but how does that explain someone else's head, several odd hands and a pelvis in the coffin with the remains of one's loved one? Even a PO-defender like yourself will agree that was a bit much! And why did Kopacz agree not to open the coffins in Poland? Of course she had such orders from Tusk HQ in Warsaw.

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In the latest update of the PO misburial scandalk, Kopacz testified for 4 horus today. Upon leaving the porsecutor's office she told reproters she was not at liberty to divulge aht went on, citing some paragraph of the criminal code. Meanwhile, PiS MPJacek Świat, who lost his wife in the disaster, said: "In my wife's coffin the remains of other vicitms have also been discovered. There are more such incidents. This was no ordinary slip-up nor ordinary sloppiness. It was a deliberate act to humilate us!""

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Unless you inadvertently left it out (and you're generally not an inadvertgent type of person!), I notice no leavening agent such as baking powder or soda. That would mean the pancakes are on the heavy side, not light and fluffy like Ameircan flapjacks. Does anyone use golden syrup on them?

Anyaay, since the proof of the pudding...etc., etc., I'll drop round your place come next Shrove uesday to check things out. (LOL!)

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But what kind of pancakes are they? Are they fried in fat like Polish racuchy or does the batter contain the oil like American pancakes?

Sure kids can be taught anything, but there has to be the will to teach. Dr Spock-style permissivism claimed children should never be reprimanded or penalised but only praised and allowed to do only what "they feel like" doing. Discipline became a. a no-no. This has seeped over into Poland. Polish teens in trams, cinemas or church rarely say "przepraszam" but elbow their way through. It's all part of todays' trendy "slob chic".


It was helpful in that it showed your dismissive atttiude to the question at hand, and you have every right to express it. Admittedly, food things are not as world-shaking as the migration crisis or terrorism, but man does not live by hard poltical news alone!

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Definitely. Most of your comments are insightful and helpful. That suggests that the translators were brought up on British English. Still in a Polish context, that is confusing because Poles (who distinguish naleśniki from racuchy, placki, bliny) may think Americans often have crêpes for breakfast.

No British equivalent of the American pancake? What kind of pancakes do the British fry up (if that is still the custom?) on Shrove Tuesday?

As for asking for things, I reckon you have never had much experience with today's post-hippy generation of glued-to-their-smartphones spoilt brats of America's hyper-materialised consumer society.

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Kopacz is being summoned to testify at the Smolensk commission for her part in the PO misburial scandal, another of her party's contributions to Poland. Kopacz assured the Russians that the coffins would never be reopened in Poland, and that gave them free rein in carrying out what could well be called the Katyń-2 atrocity. This time the vicitms were dead bodies which were subjected to typical Muscovite bestiality. The families finding alien body partrs in their love one's coffins are filled with shock and disgust and recall Kopacz's public assurances that everything was carried out properly, efficiently and professionally. She and oher PO higher-ups actually thanked the Russians for their "kind assisatnce" and competent handling of the situaiton.

Language / Anybody speak Ślunzok? [9]


How would one say in Silesian: Weź tę brudną łapę.
Judging by what you wrote, Aniu, I'd say its: Weź to brudno łapa.