Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]


Disgraceful! That rapper is a piece of garbage who disowned a disabled child! WSTYD!!!!!!!

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]


Licking Erdogan's..... Ars.h?

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


not that you're keeping track...


Knowing how thinks have traditionally worked I'm liable to think there were ściągawki involved... high stakes testing tends to lead to a culture of cheating, the higher the stakes the more likely the cheating (I'm sure not in the case of your son but we both now how much cheating has been pursued and tolerated in tests).

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]


I'm weird but in a centrist moderate kind of reasonable way.... and I'm a live and let live kind of guy rather than a control freak like the far-righties or the wokies


Spain makes some great music but they always send Scheiss to EV.... like Turkey before they got Erdoganized...

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]


Oh god, you far right weirdos are just as bad as the wokies.... you should join up and go away together somewhere far far away where normal people will never have to think about you again....

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]


And the guys that wandered in from Tron and the DJ playing a tree!

Italy was okay but Finland... maybe better (though rock doesn't do well at EV).

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


Nothing like making childhood a struggle for status rather than... fun...

The Polish education system is all goal-oriented and not process-oriented at all. Goal orientation is geared around high stakes exams rather than actually.... learning material.

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]


Very tragic.... i think they should do away with the byes into the final and two semi-finals with the top 12 or 10 making it into the final....


I was wondering a bit, she's.... large but her face and voice are feminine enough to generally pass so I'm assuming she has always been gender-non-conforming HSTS (homosexual transsexual - like Eurovision winner Dana Internation) and not one of the aging autogynephiles that are a never-ending source of trouble....

Live and let live.... it's Eurovision not the supreme court....

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]

One of the downsides of the forum being dominated by people who know/care nothing about Poland is that fun topics can't be covered....

Tonight is the Eurovision final!

Poland, predictably, failed to make the final when viewers didn't appreciate the bland dance number with crappy choreography which led to a lot of fun memes...

we need to cancel (the vote) we're losing

bi.im-g.pl/im/6d/db/19/z27111789Q,Eurowizja-2021---MEMY.jpg

When you reach your destination but don't get out of your car because Rafał Brozowski's "The Ride" is playing...

wprost.pl/_thumb/20/f8/2e408dbf1a5dda9fde7ebd4248ae.jpeg

Does anyone have any favorites?

Mine are currently Ukraine and Finland (best performances on the two semi-final nights) and maybe Switzerland, Malta... I want to like Italy but it just misses for me and I'm not sure what France's is all about....

Language / Polish sayings [237]

I forgot to mention, in modern Iberian Spanish zorra is also used like suka (b|tch)

Language / Polish sayings [237]


My favorite palindrome is in Spanish "Dábale arroz a la zorra el abad" (if you don't count the accent on the a)

It means "The abbot gave rice to the she-fox".

In a linguistics class they played it backwards.... and it was still very understandable (not true of any English palindrome that I know of).

How understandable would kobyła ma mały bok be played backwards? the stresses would be in different places of course

kobyłamamałybok

kobyłamamałybok

Language / Polish sayings [237]


Able was I ere I saw Elba....

Life / Olsztyn life; I'm Indian and I like the place [43]


It's only a problem if you let it be a problem...


Compared to. who?

If you have any hobbies special interests try to find local meet ups ...

Are you male or female?

News / The Left wing (not-so Slow) death in Poland [120]


PiS has got that mother locked up! Go..... snouts!

News / The Left wing (not-so Slow) death in Poland [120]


Why is block-voting by welfare leeches a matter of humor for you?

News / Poland hopes to attract hard-working, trouble-free immigarnts - Ukrainian, Belarusians and Vietnamese [139]


I don't hear much/any complaints (and there aren't as many around as there were at one time).

The only openly anti-Ukrainian sentiment I've seen was a lady in Centralna a few years ago having a meltdown because the sales clerk in a żabka was Ukrainian. But she was getting _no_ support from other customers who used the word wstyd (shame) a lot about her and called security to remove her from the store.

Po polsku / Lepiej powiedzieć "ślepy nie jestem" czy "nie jestem ślepy" i dlaczego? [27]


Prędzej "Ciekaw jestem" (495,000 ghitów kontra 183,000 dla "Ciekawy jestem")

przykłady..

"Ciekaw jestem, czy śledzicie jeszcze doniesienia na temat epidemii?"

"Ciekaw jestem, czy nasz sztab rozpracuje argentyńskiego rozgrywającego"

"HBO GO ma awarię. Ciekaw jestem, czy zwrócą pieniądze."

"Ciekaw jestem kto to odbiera."

"Ciekaw jestem kiedy nastąpi exodus z tego gniota."

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


....a feat!

Is Germany any closer to a ready for the job new Chancellor or has she successfully knee-capped everyone?

I really don't believe she wants to step down (and she really, really, really, really, really, really (repeat a few more times) needs to. It's not healthy for one person to lead a country so long.

Life / The Polish Dream - move out from Poland as fast as possible [73]


Like the old saying democracy/multiculturalism/immigration pick any two.... cause all three cannot co-exist....

Life / The Polish Dream - move out from Poland as fast as possible [73]

This is the whole problem of multiculturalism... it prevents the first generation born in the new country from assimilating. Instead the parents pass on their culture shock trauma.... and create a self-replicating cycle of failure.

Immigration only works with assimilation as a goal (in the public sphere at least).

Food / What exactly is Polish Bread? [91]


Yikes! I don't care much for any seed besides sesame seeds on baked goods....

Language / Can you recognise the famous quotes from Polish films? [12]


Isn't it Poszukiwany, poszukiwana ? I've never seen the whole thing, bits and pieces but never from start to finish...

Food / What exactly is Polish Bread? [91]


A few months ago I went to a bakery close to where I live (small chain with four or five stores in one city and seemingly no webpage(!)) and pretty much stopped buying break anywhere else... about ten times better than what is found in grocery stores.

Favorites include 'bydgoski'* (made from żyto czesane... what's that?) and szwajcarski (dark with raisins) and roasted potato bread and 'emilki' (very close to American 'dinner rolls' which I'd been jonesing for before I went there the first time)

Their sweet things are also good, sometimes very good but their breads are really amazing.

*it looks nothing like what you get in google for 'chleb bydgoski'... it's round and dark but not dense..

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


Like this?

independent.co.uk/voices/comment/thatcherism-was-national-catastrophe-still-poisons-us-8564858.html


in the US 'Fisherman in shark attack' or 'Shark attacks fisherman' (active voice!) or in the NY Post "Fish bites man? Shark turns the tables on angler!"


Calcque attack!

alarmować kogoś o czymś (to warn smn about sth)

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

my answers (given the test restriction and what I'd actually say)

have it checked ('get' is more idiomatic but have is okay)

are likely to ('are bound to' is more idiomatic)

crossed my father's mind

nothing we could do


Culturally that's not.... great. Effective writing in English expresses strong opinions and is deliberately one-sided (presenting the other side is the other side's job). Balanced pro and con essays are kind of..... let's just say that if I were asked to read them... I'd have the same reaction as Peter when he was invited to join a book club...

Life / Why Milosz not Herbert ? [38]

I always thought that Miłosz won for The Captive Mind (Zniewolony umysł) more than anything else. It's one of the definitive texts on the totalitarian mindset...

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

Reksio, Szarik and....?

the dog of the babcia in Kogel-mogel and Gallamatias? (I really doubt it)

Or did you mean breeds? I'd guess jamnik (Dachshunds - aka 'wiener dogs') as number one.

Life / Territorials - Polish National Guard [57]

And we can stop holding our breaths, WOT (territorials) have been revealed to be another PiS scam, jobs for wives and in-laws of the leaders and nothing for the soldiers who are purely disgusted....

onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/zolnierze-gorszego-sortu-w-wot/cm9f0t8,79cfc278

PiS truly has the Midas touch, except that everything they touch turns to sh|t and not gold...

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


Hans Kloss?

Did Avakum Zakhov (Avakoum Zahov) aka the Bulgarian James Bond ever have a following in Poland?

I read one of the novels translated into Polish and it was... okay....

Life / Jerzy Kosinski - Polish author and liar [127]


I'd hate to hear what plan C was....