News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


That's fine by me since I'm fluent in Polish.

And should any politician need to speak or issue a statement in English, it would always need to be proofread by an educated native speaker anyway. He could ask his wife who is very good with words.

The othe4 three can take a running jump.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


That's what I like about him.


As is Radek Sikorski.

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]


Or at all.

Perhaps there's some banana republic somewhere that routinely kills people crossing into their country however it would be a sad sad day if Poland were to become the only European country to do this.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


He'd be ideal.

Off-Topic / Things We Love [332]


A fascinating person. Deep esoteric interests and a friend of Henri Bergson, E Nesbitt and Arthur Machen.

My favourite Yeats poem is about the priest who fell asleep and found that he'd bilocated.


I never knew it was so wild and so green there.

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


It's more accurate to say they lost. I remember watching the TV news with them fleeing by helicopter leaving their locally hired embassy staff behind to be killed.

They tried to get the U.K. involved however our government sensibly said no.


Back then, poor people were thin and rich people were fat. Sort of the opposite of America today.

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [320]

No more or less than the same sort of thing in Polish or English.

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

So that's a no.

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [320]


Sometimes

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


How would you know what IP someone has?

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

You could say they're indirectly elected or are political appointees.

With Brussels, some are obviously political appointees but not directly elected. Otherwise people would never be away from the ballot box.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


All that. Prosecutors too. The prosecutors and judges being elected does lead to some harsh sentences.

And of course a lot of senior civil servants in Washington are political appointments and change with each administration

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [320]


If your first language is a dialect you keep it but use it to different degrees with different people and according to contexts.

I don't know much about górale, however Ślązacy certainly code switch just as I do in English according to circumstances.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


I think the USA elect some and it doesn't work well for them.

About democracy, there's direct democracy, indirect democracy and many formats of both.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]


Well happy birthday anyway.


Marks and Spencer branded champagnes are often surprisingly good. Sadly the M&S has gone from Warsaw. They were good for Sherrie's too; in Poland if you see it at all it's sweet sherry or maybe the driest, perhaps Tio Pepe in a specialist shop or big supermarket. M& S used to have the whole gamut so you could get excellent deeper ones. They Chas a good manzanilla and a Pało Cortado..

English sparkling wines are hard to get and they're good. A couple of the regions have identical chalky soil to Champagne and also climate change has made them as warm as Champagne was a century ago whereas Champagne itself is getting hotter. Perhaps some French wine regions in will end up licensing out their regional

names as Europe warms up.

Do you drink Sekt? I brought some back from Germany last time but it wasn't as good as I remember it. The is was a medium price supermarket brand.

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [231]


She's a much loved actress, very elegant too. Famous for West End theatre and also has done documentaries.

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [231]


She's a much loved actress, very elegant too.

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [231]

I didn't realise that the late British actor Robert Donat (The 39 Steps, Goodbye Mr Chips, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness) was part Polish.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Donat

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

Yes, many happy returns. All that champagne suggests it was a birthday with a zero in the number.....


It was free. If I was paying it would be Cava from Biedronka.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


That is a meaningless term.


Very good!

Language / Interesting Polish tongue twister. [69]

That one's tricky!

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


Definitely not worse.

One thing about healthcare is self-evident. It does cost money, requires selflessness, altruism and an absence of profit motive. And it costs. That's not a problem since it's society's money, to be used for the good of all and of the future.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


Sir Keir Starmer isn't a Muslim. Lady Starmer is a member of a related religion though.


You mean elections for Mayors. They have no religious role and in fact only a handful are elected.


The top priority. Sadly the Tories wanted to allow American companies to participate in it however this has been stopped once and for all.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


Did you think anyone was suggesting solely relying on one form of technology?

Gone are the days when it was just coal, gas or another dirty fuel.

I'd not bother with anything Jim or other pretend conservatives say. One minute they're complaining about alleged inefficiency of one system and the next they're praising the inefficiency of another.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


That depends on the rig, and the scale you can do it on. Paying less in itself is worthwhile, however there's money to be made. In the U.K., even a domestic setup with the newest panels pays for itself quite soon. Adds to the value of the house too.

Why do you dislike the idea of renewables?

News / Polish coal will be back [141]


And how many would be dying early from pneumoconiosis.

That and the kids with asthma.

Language / Interesting Polish tongue twister. [69]


I don't find those hard at all. There are other words and combinations of letters that are way harder.

Maybe because I had elocution lessons as a kid and have a job where I sometimes have to address large groups of people so have to take care about enunciation.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick seems harder.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


His cup doesn't runneth over, his crock of gold isn't overflowing with money, his wallet's not brimming with cash.

Understandable in English.

Language / Interesting Polish tongue twister. [69]


I found it not too hard.

There are harder ones for me, ones that mix (as mentioned above) sz and si and cz/ci in close proximity.

Sometimes I have to say the term "czcigodny mistrz" out loud and naturally want to say it with transference from English as "czczygodny myscz".

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [77]


He'll be posting about Wanda Wasilewska next...