Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Matołek? To me, he always seemed... a little light in the loafers if you get my meaning....

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


To me as well.... which would probably date it around 1970-71 (maybe 72)

News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]


Maybe spike31 should try make demands that those be returned? IINM Ironside thinks Wilno and Lwów etc should be returned....

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


My basic Spanish combo is tumeric (kurkuma) cumin (kmin rzymski) and a touch of cinnamon... (maybe a bit of cayenne for some heat)

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


racuchy?

i used (both in the US and in Poland) used to experiment with different kinds of savory racuchy.... black beans were pretty good

another recent experiment was very thin mamałyga (polenta) mixed with a bit of flour, egg, parmesan and white cheese and made into a large pancake type thing... very yummy.


a former roommate (back in the us) used to regularly make a meal of

one can of garbanzos
one can of beets
one package of cottage cheese

mixed together in a salad kind of thing... she claimed it was very nutritious but I was never that tempted to try...

News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]


What are the "Regained" lands if not reparations?

News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]


Which has _always_ worked so well in the past!

News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]


Making a stink of reparations would.... not be good for Poland. Especially because it opens up the issued of the "Regained" (hilariously innacurate adjective) lands... in the real world you can't have one without the other....

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


Are you sure? Bull's Blood wine from Eger is "Egri Bikaver" and is technically a blend of couple of different types of wine, that bottle looks more like Kadarka (sometimes used in Bull's Blood in the past though much less so now....)


I'm afraid to say what it looks like...

here's a favorite seasonal breakfast of mine, white barszcz around Easter... or it would have been but the picture is too big 128 instead of 120.... oh well

News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]


Your definition of "Soviets" was insane so anytime you use the word is a cue that there's no point discussion the issue with you.


I've never been so insulted in my life! You should apologize immediately!

News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]


PiS doesn't want the money because then they'd lose the idea of reparations as a tool to fire up their low information base.


It's weird how a formerly leftwing idea (Poland as a vassal state of Russia) is now a cherished goal of the right...

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


How about playing a new effin' tune! PO have been out of power for six (6) years! And all you can do is bellyache and moan about them whenever people point out problems with PiS....

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


How utterly noble.... perhaps we should throw flowers at your feet.....

Western countries made a yuuuuge bet back in the 1990s that if they helped China get rich it would turn it into a western-style country..... that bet went bust but Germany is still gonnna double down on it?

The new face of neoliberalism:

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/Xinjiang_Re-education_Camp_Lop_County.jpg

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


A superpower that maintains concentration camps.... and that's who Germany wants to do business with? Srsly?

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


including their concentration camps....

Study / English/Bilingual Speaking School options in Krakow and fees [13]


things I've heard about 'international schools' in Poland (from those teaching and attending)

-the quality of education is not great (since most are learning in a foreign language) the same is true at university where programs in english are mostly... not. very. good. compared to the regular curriculum for Polish students

-parents pay and expect that their little snowflakes won't be disciplined or given failing grades.... you can imagine the rest....

-educational philosophies in Poland and English speaking countries are very different (fex whether they are teacher vs learner centered and other things as well) and international schools try to split the difference... with results that are, at best, mixed.

Po polsku / Elity wygrywają. Z narzędziami, które posiadamy nie ma nadziei dla ludzkości. [14]

"Przeważnie pokojowy protest....

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"Atak teror i zdrada"

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Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]

This is true across a number of names for nationalities, "Spanish people" seems more common to me now than Spaniards (which sounds a bit old-fashioned) same with lots of others Italians is still pretty common but personally I can't imagine saying "Frenchmen" with a straight face.... French people or the French....

Genealogy / Polish equivalent of "Jessie"? [48]

Usually Moishe....

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Moishe

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


youtube has bunches of great old news clips from the nightly tv news in the 1980s.... anyone who says that things were better 'za komuny' or who wants to compare the EU to a communist empire should be forced to watch them....

youtube.com/watch?v=VS3YGAuSv1g

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


I'm a cucumber....

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


you're ridiculous dismissal of the idea that EU membership has helped improve living standards in Poland....

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


So the existence of grooming gangs (like Rotherham) and Pakistani immigration to the UK have nothing to do with each other?

Not the stance I would have expected you to take.... but interesting idea....

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Exactly.... you look at different correlations (one of which is probably related to the cause). Simply saying 'correlation does no imply causation' and leaving it at that makes looking for patterns impossible.... who does that benefit?

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

Anna: How did you break your leg?
Adam: I dunno... it's a real mystery...
Anna: Didn't you fall off the roof of your house?
Adam: Correlation does not imply causation.
Anna: I guess we'll never know....
Adam: Weird....

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

Actually.... you're wrong.

Correlation, at the very least, most definitely implies causation. It doesn't _prove_ causation but only fools think that correlation can/should be ignored....

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]


Maybe he's confusing her with Kobieta Pracująca....

youtube.com/watch?v=uyfl_iupgQo

News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]


It's worse, the _only_ criteria that matters is party loyalty so loyal bunglers screw things up.

I wouldn't say that they have any kind of cohesive right-wing ideology at all... that would be better because it's possible to engage with people with right-wing views.

The closest they have to an ideology is 'bezinteresowne chamstwo' (literally 'selfless rudeness'? sort of being nasty and unpleasant for the sake of being nasty and unpleasant....)

That's they they have no positive agenda and sound fake an insincere when they try (as in JK's appeal for people to 'defend the church').

Travel / Travel to Poland from the UK? (COVID time) [50]


Health theater to speed of the capital transfer....

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


Maybe I mean jej mąż..