Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]


I already translated it at the start but ' przestań krakać' is just the original Polish?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

So the remaining third of the answer is that the gruesome spectacle was being filmed/photographed from different angles?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]

The only idiom I know about crows is:

Kiedy przyjdziesz między wrony, musisz krakać jak i one,

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

Eating a live mouse?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]

Jak sroka?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

Is it shedding its skin?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

Is that where the snake lives?

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [961]

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]

Behaved inappropriately? Didn't think before speaking?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]


Me too. My dad collected them. We had loads of them in our house. If I remember rightly, there was always a true life survival type story in them, like the one about the Uruguayan rugby/football? team that survived a plane crash in the Andes.

I remember 'Laughter the best medicine' and 'Humour in Uniform' sections too.

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]


Even if you put aside the problem of pollution, it's not economically competitive to mine it in Poland. Poland had been importing it from Russia prior to the invasion of Ukraine, and it's cheaper to import from non-EU countries that have lower labour costs.

Plus, as I said before the cost of extracting coal from Silesian mines is prohibitive.

Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

They're not real maraschino cherries which are sour and from a variety called marasca. These cherries are bleached and then marinated in sugar syrup. They are also dyed and flavoured.

Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

Non-Polish desserts?

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]


The coal mining industry in Poland has been in decline for a long time now. The coal is of low quality and the mines had been running at huge losses due to the falling price of coal worldwide.

In addition, mines in Silesia are very deep and extracting the coal is not economically viable.


Burning coal and wood in Krakow is banned. I don't think they did that for no reason.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]


No need to be snarky. All I did was to explain that because you wrote 'who' I presumed that you wanted the name of a particular person, not a group of people.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


Nie jestem Polką


Jestem uparta :)

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


I'm not much of a crisps fan but cheese and onion are the only flavour I like. Don't think I could eat them in a bap though. I know quite a few people that enjoy crisp sandwiches. I find it a bit weird.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]


This question is why I got confused. When you said 'who' I presumed that you were thinking about a particular person e.g Chopin, Poniatowski. It's why I asked how many decades earlier. Had you said ' What group of people?' I might have stood a chance of correctly answering.


Pawian, he's having a laugh. I'm sure Iron wasn't expecting anyone to take him seriously. I've noticed that he drops bits of French into conversation here and there but I presumed he had picked bits up over the years. He's not pretending to be an aristocrat.

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [961]

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]

I am completely lost now as to where you're going with this. Please don't tell me you're talking William the Conqueror?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]


Unless you're trying to imply he's like Chopin but he wasn't born in the times of old Poland.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]


How many centuries are you going back?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]

That he's trying to impress people?

Food / Panga Fish (available in Polish stores); I'll never eat it again. Alternative? [68]

I hate to mention it but is that skate in the first pic? Is that stainless steel thing some kind of drainer? Are you trying to get rid of fishbones that you hate in some bizarre way?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]

You think he's playing at being a French speaker?


Komment sa wa? Na przykład.

UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]


Until you mentioned it I didn't realise it was a Scottish thing. Not sure why we were served it but I tend to put it in the same general category as Spam and all types of luncheon meat. Just gross.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


Yay! I love it but haven't had it for years now :(

Life / What do Polish people talk about? [56]


If it tastes a bit like stuffing, I love it. Used to have it a lot as a kid.

UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]


Nor me but baked beans are very popular over here. Eaten on toast as a snack/lunch if not part of a breakfast.

I quite like breakfast but nothing too heavy. Certainly nothing greasy. I can't stand the smell of an English breakfast cooking, let alone having to eat one.


The latter I'm afraid. I've come to the conclusion that maybe I'm fussier than I thought.....

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


I actually wasn't sure about it to start with because it didn't look quite right, there didn't appear to be any cabbage veins, hence my saying it looks a bit like gołąbki.
Now I know why!