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.

Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [207]


You've never met him.

You seem to be repeating the same posts between threads. And it's still 7am where you are...

Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [207]

Behave, and don't add fuel to fires that are not yours.

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [156]

@gumishu
That's the same for me. Caffeine levels are generally far lower in tea, especially if it's weak tea as it's usually made in PL. If you drink stronger tea that's brewed longer, the caffeine content will be higher though still far less than, say, espresso.

Green tea seems popular in PL. Personally I dislike it however it has positive effects.

History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [239]


During most of that period, Poland wasn't independent which means they missed out on all that.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


A plastic panel on a plastic roof.

What do you think of microgeneration, especially by farmers?

Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [207]

Oooh, you are angry today.

Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [207]


You really ought to.


If anything, Roz, you're the one here who's sounding angry....


You're about 20 years out of date with that.

I'd suggest going for a walk and maybe smoking a j.

Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [207]


You drug addled overprivileged underachiever.

Trying to fish for contact information on behalf of someone who wants to wreck someone's career and life is the lowest of the low.

Fortunately it didn't work. Fortunately for you.

Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [207]


It happens, and I have a lot of downtime waiting for stuff. Sometimes it's better to be online than doing crosswords.


So don't read it.

Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [207]


You know perfectly well.


Why not?

Interesting that you suddenly care so much about the appalling human being that is Deepak yet say nothing when he gets abusive to others or tries to wreck their real lives. You even helped him. I forgave you since I figured it out right away and gave you false information; the emails from him to the address I made and gave you on PM still arrived though. Trying to wreck the careers of others may seem gratifying to someone like yourself who's never had one, however behaviour like that when it affects people who came up the hard way is a whole other level of cúntishness.

You would do well to hold your tongue on this matter.


No, it's just a mild diversion while waiting for things in real life to happen.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Two of those three. Migrations inevitable, however the thread is about Belarus.


Generally, when that happens there's a backlash and things move towards the centre. It's looking brighter for the U.K. though. One interesting factor is that we've never been one of Belarus' major trading partners. Most of their economy is tied up with r*SSia.


There isn't one. Stop whining.

Life / Polish church music versus African-American gospel [29]


Take over from. Not take over, little Cherry Pie...


Not during the reformation. As mentioned, there was a great deal of flip flopping. On a parish level, the illiterate serfs wouldn't have noticed. On a national level, the horse trading lasted for two generations.


He can't hold a conversation in the language and has never lived in PL or can even afford to visit.

The thread is about church music though, not an incel's Lefebvrist fantasies. He probably doesn't realise how much more traditional the Sunday worship is in PL that he's probably used to. This is in part due to JP2's key role at Vatican 2 when he was the Bishop who most strongly promoted the idea of the local church and partly because of the Iron Curtain being up during the peak period of liturgical experimentation. That and the rural/urban split.

Nevertheless less, radical groups like the NeoKats are very big in PL, especially in the cities.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


It look like a hot year all round.

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

@Alien
Fascists always need an enemy.

Without one, they have no reason to exist, given that they're the politics of hatred.


They'd love to be able to do that.

Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [207]


This from you!

It's not 'gossip', it's cold hard fact. There was even something from his wife posted here, giving his current address for anyone who may wish to write to him.

If anyone deserves not to be cut any slack, it's him. He is a wretch..

And you. You should know why, given what you tried to do.

Life / Polish church music versus African-American gospel [29]


Priests don't "take over" parishes. They are sent there by their diocesan Bishop.

Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [207]

One happened already, and from the state of him the other can't be that far away. Still in hospital now and it's several months ago that he was admitted.

Life / Polish church music versus African-American gospel [29]


So in fact you don't know. We are talking about Polish people. Germans were less likely to have to flip flop according to their landowners.


Magnaty? Some changed affiliation several times during the reformation.


This is key. It varies from place to place.

Life / Polish church music versus African-American gospel [29]


Many did, however they weee dragged back according to the political affiliations of their local magnaty.

Surprising you didn't know that...


Not a song you'd hear much in Germany...

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


From whom or from where? Perhaps there is no answer.


That's true. Have you seen his sons? Two middle-aged potatoes with double figure IQs and a 20 year old from the second marriage, bright as a button, film star looks and being groomed to be the successor. Currently either in Moscow learning God knows what or in Beijing, but possibly in neither. Depends which account of his whereabouts is accurate.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Yes. You've said all this before at least a dozen times in threads about it and (like this one) not about it.

The question is, what to do with Lukaszenko.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Normal enough.

They're pawns in Putler's evil games, however it is incumbent on Poland to behave more decently than r*SSia.


Probably because there isn't one. Migration will only increase over time though.


He doesn't have any. All p1ss and wind from a proven disreputable character who likes to dish it out and tries to get nasty when it comes back to him.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


I always do.


I wouldn't touch them. Anyway, the main decent parties all support cleaner energy.

Sustainable energy is a good thing though. Microgeneration is a nice earner for farmers, and doesn't leave kids coughing their guts up from the coal smoke.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]

You don't 'think' at all. You just try to argue pointlessly about things of which you know nothing.

Why not Google it if you're still pretending to be interested.

There are commercial solar farms in places with duller weather than PL.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]

Why??

Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [207]


A person with a lot of problems.

One of them, the booze, got him in the end.

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [156]


Step by step. Caffeine withdrawal has its symptoms.