Genealogy / Polish Surnames Anglicized? [48]


Why did anyone pick such a dull colour?

Actually brown is the colour of all the best things:
wood, beer, chocolate, tobacco, meat, tea, coffee...

Food / How many Poles are vegetarians? [52]

Edit / addition: Why does something like this end up at the top of a page? -

I slept with a vegetarian a few times. Never agiain.
Must have been the beans!

She's the one who missed out on all my fantastic cooking.
Vegetarian recipes: I have only one - ratatouille.
But it's better with minced beef, chicken livers and bacon in it!

Food / How many Poles are vegetarians? [52]

Humans are meat and vegetable eating animals. We evolved to hunt and gather.
Farming is an ancient practice and can substitute the natural hunter-gatherer diet well.
Fast-food and vegetarianism are as bad as eachother.
Neither give balance to the nutrition we require, the satisfaction of food or the tradition that makes every culture and every individual different.
Be a vegetarian, but don't make other people vegetarians - you deny their rights to be the human animals they are born as.

Food / How many Poles are vegetarians? [52]


True, but how do you produce sufficient to provide enough milk for the market?
There needs to be more calves than can be kept for milking.

Food / How many Poles are vegetarians? [52]


Like beans?


So?

Food / How many Poles are vegetarians? [52]

So much of what we eat comes from animals.
Even dairy products result in the deaths of animals - how else do you make a cow produce enough milk?
This either leads to veganism, with which we would never appreciate any good food, or all wither away through lack of energy,
or omnivory where we eat a bit of this, a bit of that, and accept our place in the animal knigdom.
How many animals could we keep all over the countryside if there were no animals there for our nutrition?
Cows, sheep, pigs - they all have cute faces.
They also taste good.
Just don't talk about eating donkey.

Food / How many Poles are vegetarians? [52]

Why place vegetarianism and health in the same sentence without a negation particle in between?

Healthy food means a balance of foods. Humans have always eaten meat, and it is the best way for us to continue.
I eat fresh food, local food, tasty food, good food. There are plenty of vegetarians who eat sh1t.
Vegetables don't supply all the nutrients we need - most of the methods of bulking up these nutrients to natural levels require the consumption of unnatural products with bad flavour or no flavour.

Pills or bacon?
Hmmm! Not too tricky, that one!

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

The best beer is the one you're drinking.
I'm drinking Specjal. Out of a can.
I prefer bottles.

It says pelny on the can, but it doesn't look it to me.

Language / Polish or any Slavic language key to any other Slavic languages? [126]


What about English English and Scots English? They have at times been considered seperate languages. Until the two countries became one about 300 years ago, it was considered two seperate languages.

I get the impression there is far more diversity within English than in many of the Slavic languages, and that the differences between some of them is really quite small. The biggest difference between Croatian and Serbian seems to be the different alphabets they use.


What else would you call a pigeon?

Life / Do Polish People steal a lot? [330]


The debate is about as worthwhile as 'Why do people think 'a lot' is one word?'

Life / Do Polish People steal a lot? [330]

In one year of having Polish temps in the company, the total list of things stolen by them looks a bit like this:

1 broken sharpening stone,
1 Tescos bag load of potting compost,
Innumerable brain cells (they supplied spme vocka for the summer barbeque).

There were probably about 20 different temps in total over that period.

UK, Ireland / Polish Festivals/Exhibitions/Events in UK [91]

I was originally answering as one of the many on the forum who could answer.

But the issues of ability to travel to such an event, and of interest (whether by Polish people in the UK or non-Poles) are relevant. Many wouldn't have the time away from work, the money to get anywhere...

UK, Ireland / Polish Festivals/Exhibitions/Events in UK [91]

Lerwick might be nice!
Or perhaps Lands End.

Some of us can't afford to go very far.

UK, Ireland / Polish Festivals/Exhibitions/Events in UK [91]


If festival means food and the UK means the southeast of England, then yes!

Food / Types of CHEESE in Poland [150]


Do I have to fly all the way to Poland to find this.
I am a cheese obsessive (so they tell me).
I couldn't find good cheese when I was in Poland.
Is there good Polish cheese in London?

Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]

Has anyone actually mentioned that Ukrainian and Russian, along with Belorussian are East Slavic languages,
whereas Polish, along with Czech and Slovak are West Slavic languages.
West and East Slavic split some time before their daughter languages diverged.
I believe their is more commonality between all Slavic languages than, say,
between English and German (both descended from the same tongue).
Words may have been borrowed between languages after they had split,
thereby slightly incresing the possibility of mutual intelligibility
(but also giving rise to a certain number of 'false friends').

Has anyone else pointed out
that there are beautiful women from all over the world?
I thought that most men who look for a particular eastern European nationality of girl
are usually the ones who think they can get one cheap over the internet.
(See Singles section on PF)

Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]

If one gender cheats more than the other, is that due to

a) there being an unequal balance of males to females, or
b) one gender is more likely to have a smaller number of cheats having a larger number of simultaneous relationships?

Otherwise, the numbers can't add up.

Food / chef student would like to know about polish food [14]



One of the parents is a man.
If he's impressed, she'll be almost half way there.

Work / I want to move to Poland (but of course we need to find a good job) [117]


They're following you wherever you go.

Food / Bread Baking in Poland [65]


Without the machine, my speciality is bagels. The boiling bit is the most fun.
Supermarket bagels (in the UK at least) are just ring-shaped bread.
Kneading is good for stress-relief.

Food / Bread Baking in Poland [65]

What about bread machines?
My bread is always an awkward size and shape and always has a hole in the bottom.
If I use rye, should it be 100% or mixed with wheat flour?
Are there any seeds or anything else I could add for 'authenticity'?

Travel / Which city is better to visit: Warsaw or Krakow? [169]

Aron the Hungarian man, Gianna the Italian lady, Grzegorz the Polish man...

Just some of my work colleagues.
I ask them how to pronounce their name, then attempt to replicate it as they say it.
Other people assume they know and end up (I reckon) sounding a bit stupid.
It's just the same with any foreign word or name.

It's not difficult to say.

£ódź

And quite fun to say as well.

Boat

Travel / Which city is better to visit: Warsaw or Krakow? [169]

Warszawa or Kraków?

and the answer is:

£ódź

because it has the best name.

Travel / Hometown / Vacation pictures Poland [201]


They end up a bit randomly placed.
If you wanted, say, a picture of £ódź, for example, there are already 6 pages to carefully search through.
As there are forums within the PF site, could photos be given their own (sub-)forum?
That would allow threads to carry slightly more specific titles.
I do realise that it would be quite small as there are not that many pictures.
However, it might encourage more people to post photographs of Poland.

Language / Dwa vs. dwie in Polish [85]

dwa - masculine/neuter
dwie - feminine (usually nouns ending with -a)

somebody correct me if this is wrong

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

Anyone mentioned £omża Mocne?

Life / What is going on in Polish Music [128]


American rap, since the glory days of De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, etc. is amongst the worst in the entire world.

Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]

I knew a man who went to Sweden for six months. He was hoping to meet a tall blonde Swedish lady.
He met a short brunette.
He returned to the UK with a stolen bicycle.

Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]

Spitzbergen - now that sounds interesting, not only for humans, but donkeys and polar bears too.

Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]

I don't know about Norway and Swedem. I believe it's a bit expensive. But Finland has some marvellous sheds. The dark wood they use, and their rustic, idiosyncratic charm is almost enough to make me want to go there.