News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


No disagreement there if the water is heated by gas.
When discussing efficiency, we have to keep in mind that efficiency can be understood as degrees per dollar as opposed to the physics of energy conversion which would include energy losses. That efficiency would be in percent. I am assuming that in your last post you meant degrees in the room per dollar expended as the most economical. At least here.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]


First, I would never say that.
Second, I would rather read it in the expanded form than as a high-density, compressed pill that needs a page-long explanation what's in it.

BTW, those long snakes were the reason why I gave up on German.

Just look at 224-782-6439 with 2247826439 and try to memorize them. That's English vs German. No, it's not my phone number. That is why our SS numbers are in three groups.

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You made it tempting to be flippant...
Make it in China..That's how we keep our pollution low.
Seriously, burning a ton of coal at one thousand apartments yields different total pollution than if burned at one power station with scrubbers and other anti-pollution gizmos.

Plus, it's far away from you.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

You just provided the proof that English is superior to German. It's a well known fact that humans retain numbers easier when broken into groups. Same with sentences and words.

Here is the German version of the first sentence: YoujustprovidedtheproofthatEnglishissuperiortoGerman.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

It does not pollute at the point of delivery.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


I hope and pray that you are right. That is why it's so extremely important to keep the foreign human waste to the absolute minimum. Once they exceed the critical number, they create their own ghettos and your difficult language will not longer be a barrier.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


And when that bucket is full of stinking sewer what then? If you have an idea, why not implement it today before that smelly sewer spills over the kitchen floor?

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


And that is why Japan will be Japan forever. The US is turning itself - voluntarily and at great expense - into the world-class sh*it hole, the process the American fascists drool to accelerate.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


Couldn't agree more. That is why the black and white approach is the best: you (editorial) are either here or there - 100%. Stradling can hurt your (editorial) butt.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

There is another problem with Polish. It's the optics. Just look at this sentence:

Jeśli ktoś zarabia najniższą krajowa, to jakaś jedna piąta zarobków.

It looks like a barbed wire fence. Russian is almost as bad in reverse resembling a lawn that was just mowed.

Now, its English version:

If someone earns the lowest domestic income, then (it's) about one-fifth of earnings.

You can pet it and you will not cut yourself.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

I am just trying to tell you that WE has no refugee problem. It's all in your imagination, ignorance, weakness, or whatever - but no refugees. Say, thank you.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


No argument there. This is why the best electric heating is when the wires are buried in the floor. 100% efficient and 100% silent.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

NOBODY who shows up in Western Europe is a "refugee".
The liars who claim it lost their "refugee" status the second they were safe in the country next door to theirs.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

Electric heating is 100% efficient. It converts electricity into heat without any losses. It just costs more.

Travel / Poland has less sunshine than the UK and Holland? [15]

That's why Poland should contribute more CO2 to promote global warming, as it is known that high temps turn clouds into vapor.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]


...and they do their bloody damn best to cling to their native language like it was a religion.
The brilliant ones like me, switch to the local language 100% ASAP. No exceptions, including at home, even when both are from the old country. Ghettos suck, even your own.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]


I already let the cat out admitting that I was born in 1942. "Sir" makes me feel like I am almost 78, a scary number to most people.

Internet does not allow to easily detect if a post is sarcastic, so, to be safe, I will assume that the quoted sentence is just that.


Nothing wrong with disparaging or denigrating. I often deserve it, so I accept it as normal. After all, posting here to be loved is suspicious. To teach is even worse.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]


I could, but I didn't know what those forms are called by the linguistic geeks. Kids drink milk while clueless what's in it. Same concept.


The language you use in the US if you want to get laid without paying.


Nobody reads books anymore. I have only two: owner's manuals for my cars. All my music in on the computer and my smartphone.


While still in communist captivity in the sixties, I would listen to Voice of America and visit the US Embassy. I realized very quickly how ugly Polish was - the sound, the composition, and the grammar. When I read Strangers When We Meet, I knew I was at a wrong place. Just looking at that word "polszczyzna" gives me shivers because of that szcz.

Polish language is too dramatic. It's best for a passionate speech from a mountain top looking up toward the sky, with your hand on your heart. For everything else, it sucks.

I don't get my eyes wet very often, but I noticed that it is the simplicity of the American sentences and the low key delivery that does it to me. Polish pathos is annoying.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

I referred to all those overweight mamas and grandmas who never got to understand what "No, thanks. I am not hungry" means. Their autopilot response is always "oh, common..." Later, at his funeral, they will express shock why he died so young. And so suddenly.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]


That's how women kill their husbands.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]


...but not to feel better, expand my horizons or to be able to savor local culture. I did it to eat.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]


Damn right. I don't have so why should I? To feel better? If I want to feel better, I make a charitable donation or have an ice cream.

Everything has its limits and capacity. It is critical that we manage how we allocate our time and energy and purge what is useless. In the US, with the exception of Spanish, every foreign language is garbage. If I can apply for a Polish passport at the Polish consulate in Chicago in English, including a conversation with some vice-consul, my English is all I need. In my case, it also feels good.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

My position is simple: If you don't speak English, get lost. I will find somebody who does.
I do it everywhere, including Polish stores and restaurants here in the US. I did it in Poland 80% of the time and all was fine. It was when I tried my Polish that I got in trouble because they spoke too fast using the words that were created - form English, of course - during my 50-year absence. Even here at PF, that "Polish" looks and feels like American garbage from a Polish dump.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

Allegories are useless or deflections. If you replace it with a direct statement that does not need interpretation I will be more that happy to comment.

To be a creative writer in a foreign language it takes the kind of effort nobody who works for a living has the time or the energy for. It's for the trust fund parasites whose daily routines include tennis, golf, and replenishing their supply of wines and cigars. Even then it will soon occur to them to ask: why the fu*ck am I doing this bs - like studying Korean. Like, what's the payback?

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]


I don't care how they think as long as I get what I ordered. There is nothing that fascinating or intellectually stimulating about the average Joe walking down the street that is worth the effort. So, just as all airport towers communicate in English, the world is fast switching to English as the single best language ever. In China, English is everywhere. On top of that, it's the American version of it that wins hands down except where people hold their cups with two fingers.

There is a very good reason why in Polish schools English is mandatory. Like math. Without it, it's washing dishes, night guarding, or being a parasite on the government dime in Warka.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


Delete the above.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

From electricradiatorsdirect.co.uk/news/eight-myths-about-efficiency/

Myth 4: "All electric heaters are 100% efficient, so it doesn't matter what type of heater you choose"

Reality: Whilst all electric heaters are 100% efficient at turning electrical energy into heat, the type of heat produced by these heaters will not necessarily be equally efficient at heating your space. For example, a convection heater may turn 100% of the power it uses into heat, but if it is used outside, almost all this heat will be lost, and your outside space will not get any warmer. An infrared heater, meanwhile, uses 100% of its electrical energy to produce radiated heat, which is much more effective at heating outdoors, so will make a more efficient choice for outdoor heating.

Did you finally get it? Inside a room, all electric heaters are 100% efficient. It's only if heat needs to be TARGETED, which is what I wrote earlier, to an object or a person, the infrared heaters work better because their radiation can be targeted - even in vacuum - while an ordinary, convection heater will not work as well due to losses to the open space that is unable to retain all of the heat so produced.

Bottom line: all electric heaters convert electric energy into heat energy at the same 100% efficiency.Where they differ is in the efficiency of heat DELIVERY to an object or a person to be heated. In a typical room, they are the same and the temperature in that room will be same if a person is located not in the path of radiation.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

Let me help you out of your misery... Poland will be an English speaking country soon. To their credit, Mexico almost is where the Americans linger. No need to speak Spanish there. In fact, Mexicans are super nice people, have a great sense of humor and actually enjoy using their English. Polish is as irrelevant in the world as Swahili.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


You lack the proper credentials to discuss this subject. It's like an MD discussing proper cure with a woman in Peru who claims that praying three times a day at midnight facing east is just as good as a tetanus shot because it worked for her sister in Bolivia.

I don't care what your electric bill is. The laws of physics are not private and mean that if two electric heaters draw the same amounts of energy from the wall (in kWh), the heat they will produce will be exactly the same. Period.

The heat so produced will be radiated and convected. Different heaters, like different types of bulbs, will divide the two forms differently. But the total heat - the sums of radiated and convected - will be identical and the windowless room temperature the same as well.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

Just use them as appropriate.