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Speaks Polish?: Not with my mouth full

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jon357   
10 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

Better to stick some allspice in the bottle for a few days. The flavour takes far quicker than juniper and it has a Christmassy taste.

But dilute vodka? Never.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [254]

Just like they did with the Pearl Harbour, 9/11 and others.

Surely you aren't trying to suggest that they were 'false flag' operations?

That is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Well.. what if the US actually wants to go ahead with the

They don't get to choose.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [254]

But the rocket that killed two farmers in Przewodów was Ukrainian after all and not Russian as everyone thought at first.

r*SSia was however entirely to blame.

As with this.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [254]

denies

They always do.

Even when they're caught red handed they deny and try to confuse.

it's the potato fuhrer

Is stupid, yet not so stupid as to launch UAVs into Polish and NATO airspace without the say so of his putrid boss.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [254]

You would be punishing those who don't necessarily agree with the putinist government, as well as their children who are in Polish education system.

They can always go to Ukraine, or perhaps Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania.

And those are not RuSSian oligarchs, so I don't see why Kremlin would care.

It's a gesture.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

I'd be happier to see 30%. For health reasons since costs of treatment are paid by everyone.

And it's all watered down anyway. Schweppes or Britvic could make a slightly more concentrated slimline tonic.

One thing puzzles me though. What the hell is 0% Gin. Is it just water with juniper in? Why bother with ir?
jon357   
9 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

@Alien.

In fact it would. Gin and vodka in the EU can be 37.5 %

If you see it at that strength in the UK, it is about excise duty thresholds.

At least not in the EU.

We were in that trading organisation for years and there was always 37.5% stuff on the shelves. In fact, availability of it 8ncreased during the EU period.

Makes no difference really since you always dilute it rather than drink it neat (and all gin/vodka is diluted down with water anyway, usually to 40%)
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9 Sep 2025
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8 Sep 2025
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8 Sep 2025
Life / Do you know any music acts that never played in Poland? [3]

They didn't do many foreign concerts after they were famous.

David Bowie once went for a walk in Żoliborz while changing international trains at Dworzec Gdański. I wonder what he thought of it.
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jon357   
7 Sep 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Surprisingly high mortality rate among AfD candidates in the municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. Already 6 have left this world due to natural causes or suicide. Some kind of plague

16 candidates in tha5 region, 7 were afd. One suicide, one an octogenarian with end stage cancer and the others not suspicious.

Given the population size of NRW and the number of local council seats, the stats are probably around the same as every year.

euronews.com/2025/09/05/social-media-rife-with-conspiracy-theories-after-16-candidates-die-ahead-of-german-local-e
jon357   
7 Sep 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

You can't just decide from your own political leanings what is "violence" or maybe "defense" or "prevention" or whatever!

Which of course is why laws are precise (or arguable in court of they are less precise) and why there are sentencing guidelines for those found guilty. The law must always be politically neutral.
jon357   
7 Sep 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Which is why they have allowed or are not against capitalism being present in the country

Socialism isn't against the presence of capitalism, as long as there are clear parameters to the activities of businesspeople and for-profit companies in order to prevent exploitation.

And of course you have your Sovereign Wealth Fund, about as Socialist as it gets.
jon357   
7 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

In tribal cultures it really is like that. Each tribe has its ways and outsiders aren't familiar with them.

Having said that, I've met some Nigerians (students at a not very good university, in their mid twenties, from wealthy families) and I could barely understand what they were saying in English.

If you want to rile up a group of British people(especially ones from different places north of London) just say breadcake, bread rolls or baps or whatever. The names of the same things change every 20 miles or so and the arguments about what they should be called can get quite fierce.

By the way, they're called breadcakes. Everything else is wrong.
jon357   
6 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

It's been flattened out

Same with us. Some 'dominant' accents spread however in bigger cities people are beginning to sound like each other.

Traditions too, they're going, since Netflix etc is less effort and more seductive. I see this in Poland as well.
jon357   
6 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

Past, present and future. Though exposure to radio and TV have softened it in bigger towns. Some still say thee and that (and I grew up using it). If you watch a clip from the film Kęs you can hear it. Yorkshire dialect (one of them anyway, since there are differences from place to place). He doesn't seem much fussed for wine.

My fave wine tasting note is: not bothered about it. Dint go wit crisps

Mine is: redder 'n t' last 'in. Nowt up wi that.
jon357   
6 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

@AntV
Tha dunt speak reyt ovver theer.

Tha cu'nt dooit even if thi' 'ad monk on.
jon357   
6 Sep 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

abolish the capitalist system and reinstate socialism

Socialism doesn't have to be 'GDR' style.

Fascism is however in every case corporatism, with a tiny number of people enriching themselves at your expense.
jon357   
6 Sep 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Since in the US/ american fora such pics

Same for us, however they'd be seen as very poor taste.

The posh Polish language girls' boarding school, the one run by nuns near London has a giant swastika on the bottom of the swimming pool. Apparently the pool had been decorated by a Nazi sympathiser who leased the house before the war.

There are also a couple of town halls built in the 20s that have them as stone decorations, however that was more to do with the geometric shape than a (then obscure) political movement in another country.