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mafketis   
28 Oct 2020
News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

Konfederacja

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....
mafketis   
27 Oct 2020
News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

If they were doing that while I would have been they would be carried out on stretcher. Scummy soviet rabble.

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)."
mafketis   
27 Oct 2020
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.
mafketis   
26 Oct 2020
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

The first appeals for legal abortion on demand have just appeared

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...
mafketis   
25 Oct 2020
News / Poland on course to end European winter/summer time [19]

1 hr difference. CET d....... for Galicia and Western Spain

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...)
mafketis   
24 Oct 2020
Food / Bologna & onions in Poland? [44]

Mortadela is called bologna?? Funny.

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
mafketis   
23 Oct 2020
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

those in favour of bringing severely disabled children into the world have nothing to say on the subject of the lives of those children

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
mafketis   
23 Oct 2020
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

forcing women to carry foetuses that aren't viable.

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....
mafketis   
23 Oct 2020
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....
mafketis   
22 Oct 2020
Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

maf, if you cook ozory properly, they don`t remind you of flaki

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.
mafketis   
22 Oct 2020
Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

In Poland the cup tends to be half empty and not half full, hence the over dramatisation and focus on the negative.

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?"
mafketis   
16 Oct 2020
USA, Canada / My grievances with the American-Polonia [54]

Polonia ... complain how much of their tax payers goes to funding black people and others.

Rather how in Poland those who are economically productive complain about how much of their tax money goes to PiS voting welfare leeches....
mafketis   
11 Oct 2020
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

By "not doing sth" I meant

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....
mafketis   
11 Oct 2020
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Can you develop the subject?

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).
mafketis   
10 Oct 2020
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"....
mafketis   
6 Oct 2020
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

How often does anyone need to describe skin colour in Polis

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....
mafketis   
6 Oct 2020
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

give the word 'murzyn' a dignified and well-deserved burial

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.
mafketis   
5 Oct 2020
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

not one word from them about all the black on black murders in Chicago

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....