News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

Kinga Duda the president's daughter has weighed in and is critical of the decision and says the previous compromise should be reinstated....

twitter.com/DudaKinga/status/1321418269077737474

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


This should pretty much finish them.... it's the most unpopular political move in..... years and they have/had a big part in it.

Waiting for Spike to show up and explain how this will strengthen them....

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


So you approve of this....

onet.pl/informacje/onetpoznan/protesty-ws-aborcji-poznan-atak-na-uczestniczke-demonstracji/cewzh4z,79cfc278

"- Jeden podbiegł do mnie i uderzył pięścią w głowę. Kiedy upadłam, pojawił się drugi mężczyzna. Razem mnie skopali - opowiedziała "Głosowi" poznanianka. "

"One of them run up to me and slugged me on the side of the head. When I fell another showed up. Together they were kicking me" said the Poznanian woman to (a local newspaper)

" napastnicy odeszli w kierunku pomnika papieża"

"The attackers went off in the direction of the monument to (John Paul II)."

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

Has anyone seen JK's public statement? It seemed by turns to be completely out of touch (he looked sick and old) and vaguely threatening seeming to call for violence against protestors.... a disgraceful performance.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Nobody like the previous status quo but everyone had learned to deal with it most of the time. PiS decided to upset that and use activist judges to pacify one of their constituencies (religious crazies) and now everything's up for grabs... and younger, more educated people won't accept this ruling.

I say look for things like groups showing up to escort poorer women to the Czech republic when they want/need abortions (if such doesn't exist already).

This will be a problem because IINM there's no legally defined penalty for women getting abortions...

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


PiS thinking: We made a mistake so we'll have to starve education and healthcare even more to fund some welfare gibs so that the buraki will keep voting for us!

News / Poland on course to end European winter/summer time [19]


Supposedly Spain used to be on UK-Portugal time but it was switched because Franco wanted to have the same time as Germany.... I'm a bit surprised that de-Francoization has never addressed this (as far as I know...)

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

@pawian

star fruit is what it's called where I'm from

Food / Bologna & onions in Poland? [44]


What they call bologna (or baloney) in the US is mortadela in Poland (the Polish name comes from the Italian "mortadella" which is not exactly the same thing)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortadella

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Are you saying the other picture isn't her? isn't real? or isn't the 'real' her?

Work / Chances of working in Poland as an IT System / Server Administrator? ( I have 3 years experience ) [17]


What I've heard more than once is that once an Indian is in a hiring position in an IT firm.... then that's all they hire...

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Look how PiS treated families with disabled children who protested in the Sejm....

tvn24.pl/najnowsze/cdn-zdjecie9adf9b7e3d326392c00811a4f98ee756-material-magazynu-polska-i-swiat-z-8-maja-4599433/alternates/SQUARE_1280

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Yes the kind hearted souls of PiS want fetuses with untreatable fatal conditions to be born so they can suffer horribly for a few minutes or hours (and they want the women who give birth to them to watch it alll)

What a bunch of ghastly ghouls....

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

I don't see a yellow triangle house being burned, so...... now. It's two early for Noc Kupały or Noc Świętojańska

It's about the right time for the Malta alternative theater festival in Poznań (full of random events like this) but I don't think he'd be there and the geography looks wrong....

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


I was okay with the taste and I've even had ozory a time or two since.... it was the _texture_ the feeling of biting into a tongue that grossed me out. Imagine you've been at the dentist and your whole mouth is numb and you bite your tongue but don't feel pain - that's what it was like. Once I cut it into teeny tiny pieces it was okay.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

While making no provision whatsoever to safeguard the glass from its fate.....

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]


Absolutely, I'd go further and the traditional Polish mindset will focus on the glass being 10% empty!!!!!! and not 90% full....

I would say reservations can be made under or in the name of someone... I kind of think there might be some slight difference in meaning but it goes away when I think about it....

On the other hand, without the words "the name" I'd say "reservation for (name)" as in "Do you have a reservation for (Mr) Smith?"

History / Poland rightwingers` bonds with PRL communist regime [191]


How long did he spend in prison (put there by communists)?

How long was JK imprisoned by communists?

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


"the rona" (or "the 'rona") is an abbreviation of coronavirus

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

Stockpiling refreshments for the rona?

USA, Canada / My grievances with the American-Polonia [54]


Rather how in Poland those who are economically productive complain about how much of their tax money goes to PiS voting welfare leeches....

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


Out of sorts .... ('nie w sosie' is a very weird expression imho)

the second is 'get up on the wrong side of the bed'

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


When you kept harping on what he wasn't doing... I got stuck on "He's not playing a saxophone version of 'Hotel California'" and it was hard to move on... though "He's not making models of scarabs to sell to tourists in Egypt" had some purchase on my mind....

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


Is this the thing where they lower the line to 'prevent' cars from going and raise after getting money/present? Is it just for wedding guests?

I saw it a number of years ago on Złote łany (reality soap set in the countryside) but I forget the finer details...

There was also a local(?) custom where the bride and groom thank their parents for raising them (and symbolizing reorienting priorities from parents to spouse - though sadly that often doesn't work out in Poland).

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


Collecting money (connected to a wedding?)

Real Estate / Renting in Poland - tenants' rights? [51]

La la land predates the movie and "living in la la land" means "you're living in a fantasy world"....

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

Probably American influence, in Poland the hooves are usually included...

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


My "magic thinking" detector just went off.... if we make it hard to talk about racial identity then it'll be hard to be racist! Doesn't work that way....

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


meh..... it mostly seems non-native speakers who are upset by it (especially English speakers)

and words like czarnoskóry - czarnoskóra are just.... ugly, you don't replace a word by fiat, you offer a better atlernative and czarnoskóry.... ain't better.

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


there is actually, they just get no attention from the press or the race hustlers involved in BLM....

youtube.com/watch?v=r1zrrd4FCmo

Normal black people in the US (the majority) are being betrayed and sold down the river by elite-chosen race hustlers like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi who are willing for huge amounts of young people to be violently killed....