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jon357   
12 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

wokists ....... in Germany

Hard to know what that means. Especially in a country with a conservative government. Aren't conservatives conservative enough for you?

when did it start to go wrong for the East-German

Day one, ducky. A r*SSian puppet state that recruited a 'stasi' straight from the former third reich, same people, same mindset.
jon357   
12 Sep 2025
Real Estate / How to buy forest land in Poland? [18]

build a house on the land? It may change things as far as land use

It would change it a lot.
jon357   
12 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Are Polish Christians here? [160]

Humanity did always run in packs...in groups....in tribes

Not always relayed by blood nowadays.

some undefined mush

What precisely do you mean by that?

people want to rule you who have nothing to do with you and your kin

"Nothing to do with you or your kin" how?
jon357   
12 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Nah...the need to "weed out" dissidents and potential adversaries

Exactly that: when things are going wrong.

Whereas fascists plan their mass murder very carefully.

their need to break-and-change

You're describing the rightwingnuts.
jon357   
12 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Communists

Yes. They kill when things are going wrong for them.

Fascists kill when things are going exactly to plan.
jon357   
12 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

cross dressing and mental illness

To be fair, novichok is both a secret cross dresser and also off his rocker.

Anyway, he even has his own thread for his trans obsessions.
jon357   
12 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / PF Poster Polonius3 - Sad news [21]

Here's a link to some of his cookbooks.

goodreads.com/author/list/669790.Robert_Strybel
jon357   
12 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Herschel Grynszpan

That is sadly likely.

As if the Magas are looking for a Reichstag to burn.

There is of course no cheering about this - complete figment of the imagination

I've not seen any, however since the internet is essentially a sewer, all sorts of things float in it, much involving those over there who support guns.
jon357   
12 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

A lot is being made of this particular shooting. Much more so that about the shooting of that politician and her husband recently and also more than the recent campus shooting. The victim in this one seems to have mainly been an internet influencer.

There are so many shootings there nowadays. This seems to have increased over the past couple of decades,
jon357   
12 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / PF Poster Polonius3 - Sad news [21]

Was he a right-wing journalist?

Most of what he wrote through choice was about traditions, cookery, etc. The stuff he wrote for Reuters was neutral.

Yes right wing but more Kaczynski than Nawrocki

Yes. Very much about the past being better than the present.

He hasn't been posting for a while

He had challenges in life, not unusual for people in his line of work, and after his wife died a lot of things changed for him as is often the case. He was already old and in poor health.

When I lived near them, I'd sometimes see them out and about through my window.
jon357   
11 Sep 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

some of the natives they encountered in his native language and it is
claimed the natives understood him

There may have been sailors back and to.

There was also a theory that a Welsh Prince went there and went native (is it the Mandan tribe?) however DNA evidence doesn't bear that out and the 19th century linguistic comparisons were wishful thinking.

Apparently there's a tantalising letter either to or from Columbus' brother (who lived in Bristol) that some say suggests they knew there was a land mass to the west.

Random Viking or Polynesian (or other Asian) or even Basque(?!) visits didn't result in anything lasting

Does the name really come from America Vespucci or could it have existed before coming from Armorica?
jon357   
11 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [505]

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jon357   
11 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Quite a few people don't care, most have no idea who he is

Very few outside his own country knew of him until today.

Apparently a YouTuber who founded a youth group.

Sad he was shot. They seem to have a lot of political assassinations there. There was a state representative and her husband shot recently. Political violence should never happen.
jon357   
11 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

Why spend 250zl and then mix

Reminds me of some Sicilians I used to work with somewhere. They'd buy expensive whisky, sometimes costing hundreds of euros a bottle and their choice solely based on the price and the fanciness of the label from Dubai duty free then mix it with coca cola and ice.

Vile.
jon357   
11 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

a drop of water into some whiskies

Warm water works best.

spend 250zl on a bottle of gin and then drown it in tonic

44.95 at Biedronka. If you sling a bit of their fake Aperol in, it takes the taste away.
jon357   
11 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / PF Poster Polonius3 - Sad news [21]

You can still see cookery books for sale in kiosks which he and his wife did. Usually under his late wife's name.

We were nearish neighbours for a while. He was highly intelligent and also very religious.
jon357   
11 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / PF Poster Polonius3 - Sad news [21]

Those here long enough may remember Polonius3. He died last month, aged 84.

He hadn't posted here since his wife died:

The passing of Polonia's "Man in Warsaw" Robert Strybel, Polonia's long-standing Warsaw correspondent, recently passed away in Warsaw. For decades he had kept fellow PolAms informed of current events in Poland while generating interest in all facets of its cultural heritage.

ampoleagle.com/longtime-polam-journalist-robert-strybel-has-died-p18604-189.htm


  • Polonius
jon357   
11 Sep 2025
News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [251]

invading Ukraine was the stupidest decision by the leader of a large country since.... when?

1939.

The best calm and balanced way to deal with

We have to be much cleverer than the other side and doubtless such scenarios will have been gamed many times by those whose job it is to do it