Off-Topic / Moderators! What is the deal with "gender" on PF appl. forms? The category should be "sex" [63]


The concept has existed in PL for longer than you.


Straw chewing farmers, religious maniacs and racists.

News / Polish Silesian Autonomy movement [67]


Welsh English does exist (a couple,of forms) however are you confusing it with Welsh, a language related to Breton which is thriving in Wales? The priority has been the Welsh language which has a significant number of first language speakers.


There was a language closely retaliated to English with elements of Norman French spoken in one part of Ireland. It slowly died out during the ńineteenth century though.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


He was a good guy.

Off-Topic / Moderators! What is the deal with "gender" on PF appl. forms? The category should be "sex" [63]


The word has been around long enough. Stop being a twat.

USA, Canada / Why Americans don't allow men to be in briefs at the beach/swiming pools? [90]


You should have seen my two year old Alsatian's views. He'd seen nudity before of course, around the home, but only men's stuff, not lady parts. And when he discovered them the first (and only) time we took him to a naturist beach, he was beside himself with joy when he discovered the existence of vulvas.

There were a lot of women sunbathing asleep or half asleep. Almost legs akimbo sometimes, so they could get a bit of sun on it.

He disappeared off into the bushes and dunes. I kept hearing shrieks from sleeping women who woke up to a cold wet Alsatian's nose and world class tongue going at them. At least one shriek was of pleasure not shock.

He didn't get a second outing there.

Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]


Fnarr fnarr

Law / Zloty lifts Poland's Economy [58]


One of them, and vulnerable to change in any of the economies trapped into backing it.

Poland already has a good currency.

USA, Canada / Why Americans don't allow men to be in briefs at the beach/swiming pools? [90]


Do you like those ?

News / Polish Silesian Autonomy movement [67]


Why?

Scots Gaelic is spoken in a small part of the western isles by only a few people. Nevertheless, to stop it from dying, there's BBC Alba, courses, festivals, and a few other things. The idea is simply to stop it dying and to encourage it to thrive in the few communities where it's used.

Welsh is more of a living language however its cost money to save it. If you want a good public sector job in some parts of Wales, you need some degree of fluency and this does help to keep it alive. Plus, there are quite a few Welsh language high schools and that is a plus. The Welsh TV station (Sianel Pedwar Cymru) gets plenty more viewers than BBC Alba. (not hard) but still costs about £100 million. With theatre groups, financed feature films and a lot of events, it dues cost money however it's working and it's well spent. All this takes potential funding away from anything to help English dialects (like Yorkshire or Northumberland) however that is worth funding too.

There's also Scots (either a dialect or a language in its own right depending on point of view) which has official status in Scotland. In NI they have three languages for government publications, English, Irish and Ulster Scots). The Manx government also supports the Manx language. All of this does cost money, however it's probably money well spent. Some languages are doing better than others however it would be a tragedy if one was lost.


Or people who are happy that a small part of the money generated by the community is spend within it on maintaining its culture and traditions in a fast changing world.

Life / Is there a self-help movement in Poland? [13]


Well dodgy. I think that was what the guy I knew did rather than Esalen.

There's a thing in Poland called Himavanti. I know someone who is or was in it. He's very respectable however the whole thing sounds freaky.

Apparently one of the top people was locked up in either a prison or a mental hospital or both for wanting to kill JPII. He evidently had't read a Polish translation of "How to win friends and influence people".

News / Polish Silesian Autonomy movement [67]

@mafketis
I'd guess there's a lot of semi-amateur PR and a mix of seriousness and half seriousness.

Endangered languages need protecting however it's definitely too late for some.

If they get semi-official status it can be expensive though. Scots Gaelic costs the state some crazy amount per speaker.

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

I remember the thing about that sign but will let others answer.

A clue is that it's not what people might think ;-)

Life / Polish sentimental ballads [38]


Great that they were producing films so soon after.

There were actually a few plays written and performed in Warsaw during the war, by Miron Białoszewski. He, the other actors and probably the audience too risked being murdered by the occupiers for doing that.

Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]


Deny what?

Less of your weird intrigues.


Say what you like (and I'm strongly pro-Ukraine myself) but Bobko certainly defends his country on here. Despite the orc rhetoric, I prefer him alive rather than dead in a ditch near Kharkiv.

Law / Zloty lifts Poland's Economy [58]

So could the Euro.

No major European currency has collapsed to that extent in a long time though, and if the Polish economy tanked to that extent, the Euro would plummet anyway, whether Poland used it or not.

Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]


Something you have no way of doing.

So where are he and I posting from?

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


It's always nice to watch them doing it.

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


This happens a lot and as far as I know has been going on round the world for at least a couple of centuries if not far longer. They do it to celebrities too and also to royalty.

Spies also do it.


It's the merry month of May. People, usually women, decorating roadside shrines, sometimes shrines to St Mary the Virgin sometimes not, an old tradition during May.

Always nice to see, and some of the more elaborate ones are a bit like Derbyshire well dressings; the tradition of both probably pre-dates Christianity.

Law / Zloty lifts Poland's Economy [58]


What on earth for?

Life / Polish sentimental ballads [38]


Are you sure?

Perhaps several years after the war however Poland was a busy place in 1944 and not making films. Publishing books and performing pays in Polish were both banned. They both happened however a film is a bit harder to do.


A wonderful. Song and part of Warsaw's Socialist heritage.

News / Polish Silesian Autonomy movement [67]


If enough do, why not protect the language; nobody is suggesting that anyone should be forced to speak it.

I'd say that Wymysorys could do with a lot more help, though it's probably too late unfortunately.

Travel / Greatest Old Towns in Poland [74]


Or just follow their own, as Poles often choose to do when abroad.


Old town centres generally have squares. I know one in western Poland, a town that was formerly German that has three. Originally, the biggest one was for the German Protestants with the Town Hall and their church there, a smaller one was for the Polish Catholics with their church there and the third, called ul. Szeroka was for Jewish people and had their Synagogue in.


How strange. I know both places and was thinking specifically of Szydłowiec.


Yes it is. Quite a distinct character though what stood out when I was last there was a feeling of poverty. In some of the shops there seemed to be more alcohol than food.

If you don't know Szydłowiec, it's worth you visiting as a tourist; there isn't much to do however it has an interesting church and a generally nice atmosphere. The Town Hall, right in the middle of the Town Square is a particularly fine example of its type.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


We should certainly develop all.

Personally, I'd like to see more micro-generation; it can be good income for farmers and costs very little.

Life / Polish songs with religious motifs [23]


Both fine religions, and both an inseparable part of Poland's cultural heritage.


Liturgical dance can be a good thing. Worldwide it's probably more common within Catholicism than Protestantism.

Travel / Greatest Old Towns in Poland [74]

Why assimilate, Agnes?

Anyway, back to the topic, the best town square is certainly Zamość.

For small towns, maybe Szydłowiec. Not beautiful but us some character.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Yet the suburbs are mostly pre-war and Praga remained pretty well intact.

Travel / Greatest Old Towns in Poland [74]


No such word.


He wasn't. A good man who introduced the first written constitution in modern Europe.


Not the same as a town square.


No Olkusz. And some of us have lived in PL almost as long as most Poles.


I've stayed in one. A company tries to save money by booking a cheap hotel rather than the main one in town. It was full or lorry drivers and tarts. My knickers were stolen from the room.

Travel / Greatest Old Towns in Poland [74]


In English. Do try to use the correct names for things instead of being a twat.


It's a living language; the world's richest. By all means say rubbish like "I am Agnes" (no you aren't, you're Agnieszka) or use awful non-words like "trainings" if you want to look bad.


The town square? It looks boring. Olkusz has a nicer one and at least the brothels are good there.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


Yes. Nobody falling into open fireplaces, nobody burning their hands, no chimney fires and safe for kids.


Not as fun as a gob full of coal smoke or a burn on your carpet.


What for?

History / The restoration of Polish cities from WW2 destruction [123]


They were small elsewhere and are small today. Keeps costs down, and not as small as the huts the people in them came from.


Apartment blocks?

Why build 'replicas'? Are we stuck in the past with no good new ideas?