History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


Many got the hell away. Many also stood up to the, and were murdered, much like in r*SSia.


It is there; there were like that before the revolution and are like it now.


What would the dot on the z actually do, since the rz sound is there already? Would the r be pronounced separately?

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


r*SSians worship violence.

A sick culture. The Polish communist, Wera Kostrzewa, had in her (and his) old age the dacha next to Stalin's. One day, he walked over to the fence that separated their gardens and said "your roses are looking better than mine". Within 24 hours she was on the way to the Gulag where she froze to death.

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


Find in 1949 a r*SSian who was 'invited'...

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]

It was only in the 60s that even half of the Italians spoke in 'standard' Italian (basically Tuscan dialect) at home.

It's refreshing that Górale has remained strong rather than morphed into the rather bland standard Polish. Local dialects and accents aren't cherished in PL.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [397]


Sounds like you had a good day. Was it a round number?


I tend to favour blancs de blanc, the very dry ones however yes, depth is a good thing.

I tend to buy more economical Champagne and have only had Dom Perignon a couple of times when Emirates bumped me from business to first and it was certainly memorable.

Have you tried the sparking wines from Sussex and Hampshire? More champagne than champagne and a benefit of climate change. The French o longer like them in bl8 d tastings with Champagne since they usually win.

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


Hahahaha

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


So small farmers and individual householders making some money is called "exploiting the naive" in your mind.

Interesting.

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


You don't.

History / Did Poles living in Germany support Hitler's rise to power before World War II? [151]


There are always exceptions.

History / Did Poles living in Germany support Hitler's rise to power before World War II? [151]


Not in the UK, however people just don't wear them.

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


That is clearly the best way forward.

Have you been following the D Day 80th anniversary celebrations? I loved it when the 99 year old Normandy veteran who'd been given a medal by Putler for being on the Murmansk convoys said:

"A bravery award signed by Putin of all people. I'm disgusted and disappointed. He wants taken off this earth and the sooner the better. I've never said anything like that before but it will be a pleasure when I know that he's dead. And all his tribe as well."

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/08/d-day-veteran-tried-to-send-russian-medal-back-over-ukraine/

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

Now he thinks he knows more than the joint chiefs of staff and every military strategist in the victorious allied forces.


That's all he ever does.

Food / What exactly is Polish Bread? [91]


It reminds me a lot of brioche. Quite sweet and not really for serving with soup.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


Doesn't live in Poland. And Europeans can decide for themselves what sort of technology they want; hence the growing sustainable sector in Poland.


It's practical enough in Poland for people to be making money from it right now.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


So that's a bad thing?


It gets bigger all the time and is a nice earner for people who've got the right land in the right place.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


That doesn't make it better.


More honourable, certainly. Being jailed for refusing the draft is better than dying and crossing over to Ukraine to join their struggle for freedom is better yet.


Fúck, I thought this was the Ukraine war thread! Wearing my distance glasses ;-)

About the Euro elections, the German fascists got less than a fifth of the votes so it's not as dramatic as some say. France is the big worry.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


They took the money, chose to put on the uniform and swore to obey orders, including to kill and maim innocent Ukrainians. The fewer orcs the better.

It's sad to see young men burn alive, however for every one that does, there's an innocent Ukrainian who doesn't. Better they take off the uniform, throw down the guns and get the hell away from Ukraine. Better alive than dead, however they chose to go there. It's true that most were conscripted, however they are every bit as lethal, unfortunately.


Thanks. One is back already having been shot twice in the shoulder defending a town much mentioned on here. Another has just joined and is somewhere now but obviously can't say where.

News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [455]


Didn't they get something like 16% overall?

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


Something to be proud of.


There is when you have in-laws who've had to join the Ukrainian armed forces in order to defend their homes and families and are currently risking their lives against the orcs who've come to kill them. The fewer trained orc killers there are alive the better. The orcs should go back to r*SSia, return the children they've abducted and send their leaders to The Hague for trial.

The fewer the better when they're pointing guns at people you care about, and if that means a horrible screaming agonising death, then so be it; it's what they chose when they put Putler's uniform on and invaded Ukraine.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


The way he's going, they'll be a smouldering radioactive wilderness. The 'Slavic' part is an irrelevance, not least because r*SSia is quite mixed.

Delightful to hear two bits of news today. One being that Ukraine have destroyed one of r*SSia's 'best' fighter aircraft and the other is that they've sunk one of r*SSia's 'best' ships. Hopefully with heavy removal of dangerous orcs.

Every little bit helps.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


Much the same, isn't it?

Run away, escape, go out quickly or for a short while.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


I've not heard it but would probably understand it in context without thinking.

I'd probably say leg it, though nash was popular a few years ago. Some people say scarper which is a bit classier. Do a runner started as London slang but has become more widely acceptable since boomers picked it up from the TV. It wouldn't offend or sound coarse. Leg it sounds cruder nd nash sounds like drug dealer talk..

Aussies say "to shoot through".

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


Also "to leg it" and "to nash".

Love / Swedish Love for Poland [46]


We've all been on a binge, but it's rare to visit somewhere and beat up their Prime Minister.

He must have woken up the morning after in the cell with it all coming back to him...

Love / Swedish Love for Poland [46]

@gumishu
Not good. I wonder what drug it was and whether there were any other factors.

Denmark is a strange place, neither one thing nor the other.

Language / Interesting Polish tongue twister. [69]


I find them OK and only have to go slowly when there's ć and cz or ś and sz in close proximity.

And the word "Chrzciciel", though JP2 used to stumble over that one too.

Some people are intimidated by szcz however that combination occurs in English too.

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [246]

A black deer (really quite rare) has been spotted and filmed in Poland in a nature reserve at Dolina Baryczy (Barycz Valley) down in the south west.

Beautiful animals.

x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1799416082341728390

Love / Swedish Love for Poland [46]


Not Sweden but its neighbour Denmark was in t( news yesterday. It was sad to see that the Prime Minister was attacked in the street. I was in Copenhagen a few weeks ago. It's not somewhere you'd expect to see trouble like that.

Language / Interesting Polish tongue twister. [69]

There's a nice one which for Poles is a tongue twister but which for first language speakers of certain other languages (including English) is so easy that it isn't a tongue twister. It's:

Butelka oetykietowana, butelka nieoetykietowana

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


I don't think the merits or downsides of plastics have been mentioned. Sometimes it's about finding the lesser evil.


Plastic comes from oil, and a very little oil makes a lot of plastic. It only comes from one fraction in the refining process and the rest of the fractions are sold on. Providing it's recycled, it's good.

The coal industry does use a lot (really a lot) of steel, and that is not recycles, unlike the steel used in refining which is reused.

We all like a coal fire, however the smoke from domestic coal burning poisons the air; even commercial coal burning with the newest and cleanest chimneys isn't great.