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Let me put it this way -- it used to be. I don't read it regulalry except on the net occasionally. I read TV Republika's online version but cannot get the TV show on my computer. But I mostly agree with Ziemkiewicz who regularly exposes the lies and manipulations of the pathetically frustrated Wybiórcza and the whole losers' club.

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Dunno about Gumi and British papers but if there is good conservative one amongst them, it would surely be the most reliable. It's the wild-eyed leftist fanatics, libertines and cultural marxists that try to agenda-ise everything. In Poland the most balanced is Rzeczpospolita which is neither for nor against PO and PiS but tries to tell it like it is. Wyborcza and Gazeta Polska are too biased and partisan.

Language / Anybody speak Ślunzok? [9]


There is the verb gaworzyć in Polish which does not mean to speak in general (as in Russian) but to chatter, palaver, gossip or it is used to describe a baby's first attempts to mimic speech.

There is also gawędzić (like the first meaning of gaworzyć to chat), gawęda is a spoken story or yarn and a gawędziarz is a good story-teller or yarn-spinner.

Language / Widespread diminutivisation in Polish hard for learners or not? [6]


Stanisław is a favourite Polish Christian name and has generated numerous endearing diminutives: Staś, Stasio, Stasiu, Stach, Stachu, Staszek, Stasiek, Stasieczek, Stanek and probably a few more personalised family verisions.Using the full first name the way you did was a common way of addressing servantrs before WW2. "Niech Stanisław wypuści psa" for example.

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The majority of Poland's media still reflect the Michnik-Timmermans-style liberal-left convention but at least now there's a choice. During PO scamster rule there were few exceptions to the liberal-left news monopoly.

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The King of Polish Cabaret is a cultural icon known to Poles of all generations, not some obscure, peripheral Dr Misio of whom most Poles have never heard. But fyi Pietrzak was blackballed during the PO reigme's 8 years of misrule and even today his act can get turned down for a hall rental if the local council is dominated by PO creeps. The director of one community centre that allowed his cabaret to perform lost his job. But Pietrzak uses no foul nor blasphemous language, so what is his offence? The mortal sin of satirising the Tusk regime during those 8 years and now the pathetic losers' camp. And somehow no-one has ever heard a peep out of PiSlamic over that injustice. Everyone well remembers what a great champion of cultural freedom PiSlamic was in defending the play "Klątwa" which included scenes of defecating on the Cross of Christ and hanging St John Paul II, but only after he got a proper bl*wjob.

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I haven't heard her specifically mention any Dr Misio, but all Poland heard her say: "Those I have invited will perform at the Opole Song Festival". full stop. Unransmittable may refer to foul language not permitted on the airwaves. Poland has not yet "progressed" to the "anything goes" level your foul-mouthed WTF circles advocate.


Checked him out on YouTube and can see why he should be banned from the public airwaves. The garbage this blasphemous c*nt spews in rap-crap format would be grossly offensive to most Polish families in living rooms across the country. TVN and Polsat wouldn't broadcast such stuff either. Stricly tasteless and provocative stuff for Christphobic POtheads in grimy, smoky clubs. I'm sure it would suit you to a T.

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That's what PO is all about, blaming PiS for everything that is wrong. Even for what is right except they put a negative spin on it to make it sound wrong. For better or worse, at least PiS have got a programme and are doing something to implement it. The PO's sole programme is nitpicking and PiS-bashing.

News / PIS councillor wants to censor Poland's history book [148]

[quote=Harry]online version of the book[/quote
You'd probably love to see some forceful anti-Polish quotes from Zamenhof but unlike you he was no Pole-basher. In fact during his travels when asked where in Russia he lived, he would correct the asker and say it was in Poland. In 1912, the World Esperanto Congress was held in Kraków, and Zamenhof wrote an incisive letter to its organisers. "In the event that you insist on speaking about my person," he wrote, "you can call me a son of Polish soil, because no-one can deny that the land in which both my parents lie buried and in which I constantly work and intend to work until I die is my home."

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And Wiśniewski will certainly get voted out of office for the damage he has dne to the city's prestige and revenues. And don't say it was Kurski's fault becuase they don't vote for Kurski in Opole, oly for local authorities. The town council will probably be dominated by decent PiS councillors.

The event has been transferred to Kielce where there is also a nice amphitheatre plus plenty of hotel and catering facilities for visitors.

Food / Expats' Polish food favourites [140]

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What Polish culinary delights go over well with foreigners?

A while ago we discussed Polish foods to which unaccustomed foreigners do not usually take to, so today let's turn things around. In your expeirence what Polish foods have foreigners immediately taken a fancy to? Here are some suggestions:

pączki, babka, szarlotka, ptasie mleczko, delicje, krówki, zrazy zawijane (the kasza gryczana that goes with it is less liked), gołąbki, bigos, kaczka z jabłkami, jajka faszerowane (hot in shells), kiełbasa (different types) including kabanosy, mizeria, żurek, zupa grzybowa, szczwiowa, ogórkowa, grzyby z patelni and skwarki. Know any more?

News / Opole townsfolk outraged by mayor's destruction of their song festival [137]


No, Rodowicz, for whom this was to be her anniversary gala, cleared up any misunderstadning and said so on TV for all Poland to see. It was after that announbcement that all those she invited would perform that Wiśniewski unilaterally broke the contract. Let's not distort the chronology of events, although we all know your ilk prefer fake news and slanted narratives to the facts.

Language / Widespread diminutivisation in Polish hard for learners or not? [6]


Interstingly, some diminutivised forms have evolved into standard forms. For instance, córka is now the standard form of daughter although originally it was córa. That term is used today mainly for a "córa Koryntu" (prostutute). Ciotka used to be ciota, but now that is slang for a homo. Dziad used to be grandfather and still can mean ancestor but usually we now use the diminutive dziadek.

Augmentatives are mainly limited to the -sko ending: babsko (big, nasty old hag), kocisko (big, mangy, old tomcat), bucisko (big, clumsy shoe), szwabisko (nasty, good-for-nothing kraut {German}). Other than -sko occasionally other endings occur, eg piach for piasek (sand).

An interersting ending is -ina/-yna which is used to denote something poor, shabby, negative: eg dziennikarzyna (poor excuse for a journalist), aktorzyna (poor man's actor), chałupina (small, ramshackle cottage), kaczyna (sickly, underfed, pitiful-looking duck), etc. Would you know whether any non-Slavic language has anything similar.

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Well, if you agree that it is TVP that organises the festival, not the City of Opole, then why is the City of Opole butting in and interfering. First Mayor Wiśniewksi delayed signing the contarct. He hummed, hawed, balked and rather than signing the expected four-year contract grudgingly signed it for only one year. Then he balked at the inclusion of Poland's Cabaret King Jan Pietrzak. And finally he unilaterally broke the contract. Whether he was following direct orders from Schetyna to sabotage the city's hallmark event as a way of taking yet another swipe at the democratically elected government or did it on his own was not immeidately clear. (Probably he is too small a fry for that.) The showbiz community have shot themselves in the foot, because a performer has to perform to earn his/her keep and remain in the public limelight. The widely respected TV discussion host Jan Pośpieszalski, a former rock-n-roller, has expressed surprise that the usually independent showbiz circles allowed themselves to be used by the PO establishment ot their own deriment.

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It was meant to illustrate "the kind of nonsense" one can expect from a certain PF poster who claims Poland is not a Catholic country because a majority do not attend mass every single Sunday. Nevertheless , general opinion is that Poland is indeed a Catholic country. Therefore the tirade baotu the Opole festival merely attempted to re-create the general ambience and timbre of his obsessive claims and his propensity to indulge his numerous pet phobias. To the amusement and/or disgust of fellow-posters.

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Interestingly, your guru (although not all that brainy) is a bit brighter than you are because he immediately caught the drift. He realised he had gone out on a limb by claiming the festival was organised exclusively by the City of Opole. Unable to find a convincing explanaiton for his latest bout with foot-in-mouth disease, he suddenlyl fell silent.

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I see you are too dense to perceive the irony of that statemrent. It was meant to parody that kind of nonsense PiSlamic churns out: For instance, "It was the City of Opole that created the programme of htre Song Festrival according ot their own taste and preference, invited the performers the City Father liked, designed the sets and always footed the bill for the event. That included paying the performers, set designers, orchestral accompaniment, technical staff as well as the TVP crew for their filming and transmission services. TVP had nothing else to do with it." In actuality, allowign a numbskill like Wiśniewski to create the festival programme would have spelt immediate disaster.

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I was being ironic. PiSlamic claimed that, contrary to general kowledge, the City of Opole organised the festival, not TVP. As usual he has lived up to his LL title.

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Kayah peformed at a carol concert for SB snitch Komorowski (code-named Litwin) who also opposed dismantling the Soviet-style military-intelligence unit WSI. But Kayah turned down similar invite the following year from Duda who was never a paid informer for the Soviet-installed PRL regime. That tells us that Kayah is either plain stupid or consciously hobnobs with secet-police snitches.

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Also, more importantly (to many), it was the City of Opole that always footed the bill for the event. That included paying the performers, set designers, orchestral accompaniment, technical staff as well as the TVP crew for their filming and transmission services....

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I had to look himn up on wiki: Dr Misio - polski zespół muzyczny założony w 2008 z inicjatywy aktora Arkadiusza Jakubika[1]. I ahd never heaqrd of im and know nothing about him.

As PF's court know-all (amongst your many other titles and claims to "fame"),tell us how it all works. We've always heard that TVP has organised the event since its inception. You claim otehrwise so give is your (only one true?) version. The city of Opole has always created the festival programme, scenario and stage set according to their own tastes and preferences and invited only those artistis the city fathers liked. TVP only came in to film and transmit what the Opole city fathers had put together but had no say in anything. Is that what's your trying to tell us. We're all ears!

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Does FT advocate healthy conservative family values, belief in God, patriotism, decency, restraint, self-control, personal accountability, etc. or the "anything goes" agenda: abortion on demand, hook-ups, shack-ups and patchwork "families", homo promotion, recreaitonal drugs. religion-bashing and all the other anarcho-libertine-leftist garbage that has turned much of the West into an open cesspool. Top that off with a growing overlap of invading Muslim migrant hordes and only one conclusion is possible: THE WEST IS DOOMED THROUGH ITS OWN STUPIDITY!

News / PIS councillor wants to censor Poland's history book [148]


Of course not, Every sweeping generalisation or obsession like someone's inborn PiS-bashing or pretending that Jews have always been victims, but never vicitmiers, is a lie. Everbody has been both a victim and victimisers at different times and places.

As I said before (but you probably weren't paying attetnion because it did not directly involve your cherished PiS-bashing obsession), please define anti-Semitism.

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"untransmittable", "untranshittable", the point is Rodowicz had worked it out and all could perform as invited by her. It was the fact that she annoucned it on state TV and unleashed the PO hate industry's barrage of attacks and insults on the 71-year-old. And that proves conclusively that it was not about trying to save the festival -- Rodowicz had already done so -- it was all about more PiS-bashing, your favoruite hobby. BTW TVP was always the organiser of the festival. Opole only provided the venue and did not interfere in the programme or line-up. But facts are unimportant when there is but one goal: PiS-bashing. That's something you know about, right?

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The chronology is important. If there was a blacklist and one wanted to milk it for what it was worth for PiS-bashing purposes, one only had to spread the rumour and raise a public hullabaloo about it. It's no secret that PO's hate industry is always ready to pounce at every opportunity. If the aim had been to save an icon of Polish popular culture, then ways could always be found to achieve a negotiated settlement. But there was no attempt at dialogue by the PO hate industry. That became all the more glaring when Rodowicz ironed out the porblems and all her invited guests could perform. But the PO hate industry couldn't let such a PiS-bashing opporutntiy slip by. They are too monothematic, blinkered, biased and hyPOcritical!

News / PIS councillor wants to censor Poland's history book [148]


My profuse apologies, I beat my breast, mea maxim culpa for the capital crime of putting something in the wrong thread. If he could, Pislamic woudl gladly clamp me in irons and keep me on bread nad water for a year at least. Anyway, to make amends to Mayfixit I am re-posting it in the correct "Białystok councillor censorship" thread.

One quick question. How do you explain the huge volume of copy generated on PF by a single, local incident. There are numerous town councils where various rows, incidents and irregularities occur but go largely unnoticed beyond their local area. In terms of PF focus, the Białystok incident might appear to be a major "catastrophe", "disaster" or "conflagration". In actuality it is truly a peripheral occurrence if one consdiers the Manchester massacre, the NATO summit, scams such as AmberGold and many other domestic and international issues. What is your personal, candid take on this? Why so much hoopla, brouhaha and hullabaloo?

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If the mayor's priority had been to activate PO's hate industry (dunno if you know Polish but in the original it is przemysł pogardy), he did that job very well, destroying a half-century old cultrual icon. If his true intention had been to save to the song fesitval and he had some obejctions, he should have sat down and sought a negotiated agreement. Whenever someone issues an ultimatum, storms out of an assembly, occupies parliament, blocks a relgious or patriotic commemoration or ostentaiously breaks a contract in the public limelight, such individuals are not seeking dialogue but want pnly to smash and humiliate their adversaries. That seems to have been the case here. But if you regard yourself as a rabid PiS-basher first, last and always, then such explanations are a waste of breath.

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One can always tell a simpleton because he always sees things in the most simplistic terms. Some roughshod slogan and bam, bang, boom -- the rumpus is ready to go.

In reality, most things are far more complex and derive from mutlple, often crisscrossing and/or underlying factors. The Opole row was actually started by Kayah's manager Tomasz Grzewiński who first spread the rumour about Kurski's alleged blacklist. Whether there was an actual physical list or simply some virulently anti-government performers were in disfavour is not important, because Rodowicz herself got it all straightened out and all her invited performers could perform. But the hate industry couldn't let such a PiS-bashing opportuntiy slip by and rolled out their hate-spewing artillery. So it was not about saving a Polish cultural icon, the festival, because Rodowicz had already done that. It was about stoking up the poltical conflict and scoring points in the Polish-Polish war. But that may be too involved for some who prefer (or are intellectually able only) to see everything in black and white.

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Extremely funny to native Poles. Expats are known to miss the point of Polish quips. anecdotes and in-allusions. Par for the course.