News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]


No, slippery, disingenuous snakes simply don't believe in questions of right and wrong, it's all brute force to them.... see: Krym

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]


Then figure out how to achieve that ethically rather than third world sh|thole tactics like retroactive legislation.

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

To be clear here, my entire objection to this proposed law (in legal terms) is the retroactive element. If they tried to use retroactive legislation to take TV Trwam off the air I'd be just as opposed. If they wanted to prevent non-European (however defined) interests from having a media presence in the future, fine but don't use such a law to attack an existing broadcaster.

There are separate political issues (like PiS's transparent attempts to replicate PRL style media or what a crappy ally this makes Poland seem like to the US) but the legal issue comes first - retroactive legislation is wrong.

Genealogy / Names that Poles share with Hungarians and Slovaks? [10]

It exists....

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodora_(imi%C4%99)

edziecko.pl/ciaza_i_porod/0,79473,,,,imiona-dziewczynek,Teodora.html

I've never encountered a Teodora in Poland and the wiki link suggests it's not.... common (the most recent notable Teodora died in 1942)

There are currently less than 7000 Teodora's (out of almost 20 million Polish females) so.... not so common....

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]


Yes it does, because such a decision can be appealed (and if no reason (uzasadnienie) is given the appeal will easily succeed unless you have crooked judges willing to do whatever the party leader tells them to (which actually PiS has spent a lot of time cultivating).

Life / Laxatives in supermarkets [8]

"laxative" is "środek przeczyszczający" google is your friend....

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]


PRL / Soviet mindset... the political party in power _is_ the law....

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]


It's essentially retro-active legislation and a transparent attempt to silence any media that dares to criticize PiS....

When their policies really start backfiring they don't want the citizenry to have any access to anything beyond the party line.

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]


There is a.... segment of the Right in Poland that desperately wants to bring the country back into the Russian sphere of influence.... and this is part of that.


PiS thinks it can treat allies the way it treats party members - regularly humiliating them.... (like that poor unqualified woman they nominated as Ombudsman who embarrassed herself in the Senate)


What's the konfederacja position on that? I'd expect them to support Lukashenka since that's the kind of government they want for Poland

Genealogy / Names that Poles share with Hungarians and Slovaks? [10]

Ilona is also found in Hungary (where it's more common) and Poland (less common but it exists).

Life / Languages understandable by Poles? [38]


He was not talking about the modern country of Lithuania.

Lithuanian is a Baltic language (like Latvian) sometimes grouped with Slavic as Balto-Slavic but not really very similar apart from borrowed vocabulary....

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]


While I've actually been in Poland for that twenty years (or more)....

Random Polish people aren't going to fall over someone because they're a foreigner. Foreigners (including ones who speak Polish) just aren't that rare anymore. I was in a work meeting earlier today (conducted in Polish but most of the participants weren't Polish).

And most people don't care or think about tourists at all. Those in tourist dependent sectors will be a mixed bag.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Polish people are extremely friendly and hospitable for people they've invited or guests they have some connection to. They regard open and obvious friendliness in other circumstances rather suspiciously and feel no real need to be outgoing and friendly to strangers....

News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]


The problem with your style of cynicism is that it makes any real improvement impossible.... nothing that can actually be done comes close to what you would like and so no positive change is possible and so why not support the crooks that are slightly less unappealing....

I'm not happy about Tusk being back - the great failure of the last 10 years of Polish politics has been the failure to produce leaders who aren't fossils.

Tusk had his go. Someone else needs to step up and if they can't/won't then that's just societal and institutional failure (one of the defining features of the age - and not just in Poland, see Merkel, A. still no closer to stepping off the stage).

Law / HELP STARTING MEXICAN FOOD BUSINESS IN POLAND [8]

I'd love a place that had enchiladas and tamales .... or chilaquiles.....

if you could sell fresh corn tortillas I'd be in heaven...

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]


Taking two hour baths and not cleaning up after yourself is not 'behaving normally'....

Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]


there are different types of attraction for most men

short term sexual gratification - meanness can work here as a proxy for 'crazy' which is a proxy for 'uninhibited' and 'kinky'

long term life partner (wife) - here meanness is a definite turn off, a controllable degree of.... spunk (US meaning) or self-assertiveness in the right context is an asset (will be able to keep kids in line) but not generalized b|tchiness

Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]


I've heard it a few times and it did seem they knew each other (but it was also flirting).


what about ślicznotka? And yeah 'mała' definitely seems to have a young and dumb feeling...

research (science!) has shown that on average women find men with the dark triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy) more attractive than well-behaved men.

Not all women and not all to the same degree but general female attraction to 'dark' personality traits and social dominance is pretty well established.

Recently saw a reference to research that indicated that women find men displaying happiness to be less attractive than those displaying pride or shame.... for men it was more or less reversed with happy looking women being the most attractive.

Human attraction patterns are what they are....

Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]


IME I've hardly ever heard men use any form of 'sliczna' (except quoting a female).

I'm not saying it doesn't happen but.... it seems more like a female word (like 'lovely' in the US).

Some things I've overheard guys use as flirting include 'malpiszon' (monkey) 'mała' (little thing/baby) or my favorite 'cwana bestia' (cunning beast)

Genealogy / Polish looks? - part 2 [81]


There are several typical Polish looks... Ewslc conforms pretty closely to one of them.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]

So how does one determine Jewish ethnicity rather than religion? Especially since so many ethnic Jews are no longer religious at all......

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]


As far as I know Soviet nationality policy (evrej-) didn't work that way....

Genealogy / Polish looks? - part 2 [81]


I'd put it stronger than that... he's in the top third for looking 'Polish'.

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

Now the shoe dropped.

I'm wondering if Tusk mentioning the idea of a comeback (that almost no one wants) is his way of getting Trzaskowski to step up to the plate and take over PO rather than spinning his wheels with some new formation?

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]



English vocabulary is not very clear here (and neither is Polish).

Russian handily distinguishes between the followers of the religion (root: iud-) and the 'nationality' or ethno-group (roughly Ashkenezi jews who have a lot of distinct genetic markers like any ethnic population) (root: evrej-)

So in Russia most evrej- don't really practice the iud- religion while a few who do practice iud-ism aren't evrej-...

Much clearer....

Life / The Pole, as an example of a perfect Russophobe, in a spherical vacuum [42]


I notice the words 'clean' and 'open' and 'free' were not used....

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]


Old men spitting and clawing at each other.... isn't there enough of that on this forum?

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]


I'm with Trzaskowski (I'm not a stan or anything but he's about the best they've got at the moment). Tusk has had his day and I really don't think he has much to contribute anymore. He needs to retire in dignity.