Food / Healthy polish food? [143]


Ha Ha Ha

Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [340]

@pawian
I really don't want to explain genetics here but almost all fruit trees need cross pollinated from one or more similar species. You dont live in a barren environment as there is wild blossom available so I still maintain your practice though not harmful is unnecessary. Genetics is not country specific and nor is bee behaviour.

Surely Polar bears eat all the fruit left by the wolves and Bison

Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [340]

@pawian
Not really a greenhorn I have been growing a wide variety of fruit and veg for decades and working with bees for about 20 years. Like the hippocratic oath the first lesson is do no harm. Placing additional blossom can help and there is nothing wrong in doing that but I suggest its unnecessary as pollinators will work their magic regardless thats why no one I know does it its unnecessary.

It makes me happy seeing people share their love for horticulture and the riddle/quiz twist you put on the thread makes it all the more interesting. I recall you said you would like to husband honey bees I would encourage you to do so. The native Polish bee is under pressure from commercial bee keepers with their hybridized stock and needs support, the same in Ireland.

Off-Topic / What's your hobby? [191]

@johnny reb
You still haven't explained why you cyberstalked her and then issued a threat.

Off-Topic / What's your hobby? [191]

@johnny reb
Honesty is always the best policy...stop cyberstalking and grow a backbone.

Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [340]


I finally got round to reading the linked site its generally interesting but there are some errors in the description of bee behaviour especially their flight height and distance travelled.

The site reveals the answer to your question. I really think placing additional blossom is unnecessary despite what the linked site says. The average distance of travel for honey bees for example is 3 miles (4.5 Km) and they can and do fly well over 50 meters. the logic in the website seems sound but it is unnecessary as the pollinators (not just bees) will do the job for you. having said that it will do no harm.

Off-Topic / What's your hobby? [191]

@johnny reb
You still haven't explained why you would cyber stalk someone and then post a veiled threat to them.

Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [340]

I would think the additional blossom was sourced from a place more than a few Km away otherwise there is no point. Its interesting to me as I said I don't know anyone who does this. Do your neighbours have similar trees or is there a market for them?

Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [340]

Perhaps you are placing more blossom to aid pollination but again something doesn't seem right. Most cultivated fruit trees are self pollinating even if they are diploid or even triploid. I've never known anyone to do that so it must be something else.

Off-Topic / What's your hobby? [191]


Yet you started an argument with her leading to a strange threat...


whatever that is supposed to mean...

When you cyberstalk people dont tell them because people quite rightly tend to take a dim view of such things

Off-Topic / What's your hobby? [191]

@johnny reb
Why would you want to cyber stalk anyone?

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

@johnny reb
Stop using Google and go outside.

Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [340]

My guess would be that you are attempting to propagate the trees by layering however several things don't seen right. Fruit trees are usually grafted onto a suitable root stock and layering, even air layering, tends to use soil in the vessel to stimulate root growth. I have layered fig trees but never stone fruit. If I was doing that I would like to control the height with either dwarf or medium root stock but it looks like you have the space for full size trees.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


I'm happy and content being Irish I don't however think my country is better than others.
You confuse love of place and country with bollox.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


Thats excellent. I don't know why I think this but its surprisingly good. Its on Spotify 174667 listens

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

@mafketis
Didn't mean any offence.

Is fairy tale...not known in the US? Thats surprising yet U2 are massive, you learn something new every day.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


The clue is in the name...

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


Good old Lisa O'Neill released one of the best albums I've heard in years last February called All of This Is Chance

@Alien
Yeah, funeral Mass caused a lot of pearl clutching at the time from the usual suspects.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


The Angola/Namibia thing as you call it was the democratically elected government of a recently freed colonial country being attacked by one of the most repellent regimes the world has ever seen. Apartheid South Africa funded and supported by a plethora of NATO countries and Israel had their asses handed to them by the Angolan government supported by their Allies from the Caribbean. All credit to Cuba who fought the might of the West and knocked the bollocks out of the racist scum.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


If you are the right sort of person...

Classifieds / Polish Linguist Opportunity in Tampa FL [23]

The fine cuisine of the good old USA would require loose fitting clothes ;)

Classifieds / Polish Linguist Opportunity in Tampa FL [23]


Do they advise bringing clothes with elasticated waists?

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Crnogorac3
Thats exactly where I live, I pass that spot several times a day. You couldn't have picked a worse example, Gerry Kelly lives opposite, its about 30 second walk from the Felons club. Some Smick sprayed that to wind people up, there is zero support for racist scum in this area. I know the people, the political representatives, the unions and all other aspects of the area.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]


If he didnt work he could not have claimed benefits so was not supported by the state. If he was claiming benefits he must have worked for a minimum of seven years.

I agree to a certain extent that migration law needs overhauled, there is no quick and easy way to do that. All published work aims to influence public opinion.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]


There are, however until recently China was not a player and the CCCP was more interested in supporting liberation movements. It was the US with its invasions and coups that bears the lions share of the blame. Migration from the global South really took off with the rise of outsourcing from the west as the west shafted their people who it must be remembered voted for that crap. A ven diagram of migration and invasion will show an almost perfect overlap coinciding with the turbo charging of the flow of people.

I'm not against migration and have no problem with ethnicity or religion of people. What I do oppose is the hypocrisy of those installing governments who's economic policies created the problem and are now screaming blue murder

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@jon357
Take your pick between state capitalism, gangster capitalism or vulture capitalism. I go with the country that created the mess.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]


Its a weird kind of mental illness that makes him a homicidal maniac.


He was working. You can't claim and receive benifits if you have not contributed.

His nation of origin like his mental health status is irrelevant unless you are making some sort of crypto point.

Ireland as an Island could very easily restrict migration even after Ireland voted in a referendum to endorse freedom of movement within the EU. The problem is that US policy is to invade and destabilise the middle East, North Africa and Sub Saharan Africa and as Europe follows the US there is not much we can do about it. US immigration policy is much stricter than Europe's but Europe is militariarly weak and socially liberal and under the political domination of the US.

I don't have any problem with the level of migration into Ireland and don't see or feel any threat from these people.

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]


Its debateable if he was ever mainstream. He was a folk singer in Britain in the late 60s but after hearing the string arrangements of Sweeneys men he helped form Planxty who were huge. Since he left Planxty he has toured the Christy Moore "show" with Moving Hearts and later with accompanying musicians.

Today he is a nostalgia act if he is still playing live. I have loved him since the 70s and have seen him several times but rarely listen to his solo work now.

As "H" says he is a bit 'Oirish'.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Crnogorac3
Is there something wrong with you that you keep trying to P1ss through another mans dick?