News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


All?

Is there a reason that a handful of very hard working public servants shouldn't try to raise people's spirits for 5 minutes in their own time as a one off,


Mostly before people had a possibility to improve their chances of survival by taking the recommended protection.


Don't be so fúcking stupid. And you had the recommended protection yourself, as did most people who had that dreadful virus and survived.

Life / Primary Education in Poland - Changes Made to Homework? [15]

Unfortunately the system in Poland was so run down by the PiS administration that many kids don't get a full school day.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


Should there be? Shouldn't there be? That doesn't relate either way to the changing views about genders within society.

Some societies cut clitorises off, some eat human flesh. Do we need to be restricted by precedent?


That's up to them not you.

Gender is a social construct. Anyway, this thread is about the Polish language, not your obsessions.


Your daughter does that for a living.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


In the middle of a pandemic?


My local hospital in Warsaw was stuffed to beyond capacity.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


Who said that? Although some do.

The women certainly serve in the army.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


I was surprised. A type of rabbit as I recall.


Israel among others.


There certainly should be.

And of course we're moving away from traditional binary gender roles.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


The incessant stream of lies was entirely on the side of the conspiriturds though. The actual scientists have to adhere to higher standards. Execpt of course when they're performing 'blood sacrifices' for Korvinus or injecting 'nanobots'.


The public health people who were responsible for planning were of course facing something entirely new and facing it while responsible for their country's entire health system, education system, food supply and economic infrastructure. Slow moving and complex behemoths. They didn't have the hindsight that we have now or the luxury of being back seat drivers. People may be criticising them for overreaction however the criticism for underrreaction would have been much stronger.


One issue with that is that most of the thingymeters that you can buy off Amazon to put your finger in (I just bought one) don't distinguish between blood gases. They're also not that accurate. The last thing a country's health service would want in the middle of a pandemic is thousands of laypeople swamping them on the basis of their misunderstanding of the results on a 7.99 bit of plastic from China.


Very true, however the issue was of course about them not getting it from healthier, perhaps asymptomatic, family and friends.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]

@elizabethwilliam
Are you an AI?

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


York?

One of the nicest cities in the world. And no gun crime ever. Why? Because guns are rightly unavailable.

It's interesting that the only people here who are promoting easy availability of guns are people who live in a place with a stratospherically high level of gun crime.

Nobody else wants that.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


Why would anyone need to?

You must live in a shítty place.

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]


No relevance at all.


While you were away from the forum, were you by any chance in a hospital or similar facility?

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]


It isn't. Serbia is an obscure, tiny (and shrinking) place that is relevant to very little.

And this thread is about the English language, not Serbia. The owner of the forum created a special thread for you to bang on about Balkan issues.

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]


What a load of old bollocks.

What they have in common is that both languages are Indo-European. Neither "branched off" from the other.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Perhaps much more than you...


What precisely do you mean by that?


Yes. People die.

Do you remember that film clip the antivaxxers were touting on social media allegedly showing people dying of covid in the streets in Iran? It was actually a clip from a TV drama about Saddam gassing Kurds but hey, who cares about reality.

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]

@pawian
The strips?

Inheritance law.

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


That and war/political change making a fragile bourgeoisie feel more fragile yet and determined to preserve what they feel distinguishes them from hoi polloi.


Wouldn't that be a different word? Perhaps it exists in some dialects.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


That's fairly normal.

Nevertheless, vaccination is perhaps (together with antibiotics and the NHS) the biggest human advance in medicine.

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


Of course.

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A few leeks??? Crikey, that's a lot unless they're mini-leeks Presumably you mean raw rather than fresh (I'd not use unfresh ones at all) however you must be tholeeked up.

I'm not bothered for raw ones though occasionally put a little butter n a green salad.

Try making Glamorgan Sausage (use strong Cheddar not mild cheese and leek not onion. Use English mustard or Ukrainska rather than Polish). I do them sometimes and they always go down well in PL.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


They helped people at the time. I had elderly relatives who got it and died before the vaccine was produced and elderly relatives who got it and didn't die after the vaccine was rolled out.


It doesn't.


They certainly didn't have freedom before. Did you think that the gulag system was invented after the revolution or that Tsarist r*SSia had free media, religious freedom or freedom of movement?

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


Same, though almost never in wh unless I'm trying to give a particular impression. And always pronounce it in herb and hotel unless speaking in my local dialect which doesn't use h at all.


Not really. The distinction is almost inaudible.


It's a tricky one. There's that, there's the one that looks like the letter æ and a few others. The sound differs. I've found that some Poles (especially ones who did English courses at Warsaw university in the 80s/early 90s - I met their "famous" and genuinely excellent teacher and he spoke like Dame Celia Volestrangler [worth looking out on YouTube] so they probably got it from him) pronounce it in a ridiculously exaggerated way, cet rather than cat. It sounds almost South African or like someone from the Channel Islands. There's also a snobbishness inherent in Polish language and society which leads to a distorted idea of what's "correct" or not when speaking. I've seen people correct each other while speaking which would just lead to a headbutting where I'm from.



There are a few sounds that are awkward enough to give linguists nice doctorates to frame on their wall.

UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]


They had so many other bad habits too. And post in the end.

Vampires are a Transylvanian thing. We don't have many in the U.K. nowadays except for in Whitby (which is by the way famous for its food, mostly garlic free).


They're obviously scared of mine due to sheer scale however in Poland it's more an inhibited lower middle class thing about being afraid people will see their pee pee. Same in saunas in PL where people go around wearing towels.


The railways do need renationalising (together with buses and public utilities) however what in your opinion is a "better" system.

UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]


We love them really despite their inferiority complex about us. Otherwise we wouldn't keep saving them from their neighbours.

We used to buy a lot of their wine however now we make better wine. Mostly white wine (sparkling wine from Sussex is better than a similarly priced bottle of champagne and it's noticeable that the French now dislike blind tasting competitions because we keep winning) however for red, the average quality coming out of our King's realm of Australia tends to be better than similarly priced stuff in U.K. supermarkets from France.

As a nation, they never quite seen like the adults in the room though.

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

Do drink a black coffee and neck a paracetamol.

Did you see my question about adjectives in the other thread. Not a hard one (B2-ish) but not so easy if asked out of the blue.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


As countries go, it's very much not 'white' though is it.


That's not a high bar.

Nor is it a genuine statistic since there's no such thing as "white America".

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


I use it in cooking probably far more than you.


Don't be a doilum. There are enough of those here already.

UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]

Sometimes when cooking foreign food.

Plus Wild Garlic sometimes in the countryside however on the whole it's traditionally disliked and associated with banana republics lived in by greasy looking people who drive on the wrong side of the road, have revolutions, drink weak tea without milk, lose wars, and kiss statues in church.

UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]

@Alien
Everything.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

Rubbish.

Vaccination is a lifesaver and any weird online stuff that promotes vaccine hesitancy leads directly or indirectly to people, often children in vulnerable communities, dying.

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


There you go again...


There was no 'idea' to have.


Why on Earth would anyone care what outsiders think about their country unless they have some sort of "cultural cringe" inferiority complex?

And it still doesn't say "leek"...

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


Don't be daft. It was a particularly weak 'riddle'..


Not "still" but "again". I returned several days ago.


Until last week I was at home in Warsaw drinking bland and fizzy beer, eating gherkins and pushing a trolley around Biedronka. Then a few days in the U.K. and now back here for a while.