News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Not that select. Most of us have never had it.

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]


Then you're probably very good looking.

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]


This is correct. Urban societies too with more visual stimulus.

Travel / What are the best countries to live in? [161]

Youre obsessed with it.

And you've never been to either London or Paris, or ever will...

Both cities, btw, have millions of locals.

Travel / What are the best countries to live in? [161]


There arę a couple of bits across the river that are best avoided.


Me too, without problem. People I know have been less lucky though.


That part of the city centre can have its moments too, usually involving drunks.

Travel / What are the best countries to live in? [161]


Me, and it was delightful though of course touristy. One of the nicest cities in the world to visit, especially the left bank. Neuilly is also worth a visit too.


Rubbish. You're hanging out in slummy areas which have been crap for centuries.


It isn't.

And there are parts of Warsaw that it's best to avoid at nighttime.

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


Less than zero.

It must be odd to feel so alienated from your real life and the society you live in that you fixate on a place thousands of miles away where some of your deceased ancestors once came from and where, if you visited, your welcome is more likely to be czegoś w pysku than a garland of flowers.

Genealogy / Lugii and last name Długosz [2]

That question is almost impossible to answer without extracting DNA from old graves and even then it would involve guessing.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


You haven't been to Poland. There are thousands of kebab shops, some with queues on the pavement outside.


It's a fun card game. Not bridge however almost any card game is good for kids and arithmetic skills.

That song is dreadful though.

Law / Opening IKE account in DM BOŚ [4]

It just looks like a regulatory thing.

As long as you've not been on their website while in Australia you shouldn't worry.

And even if you have you probably should shouldn't worry as long as you've not signed up for things while there and thereby left an online trace.

If in doubt, ask them.

UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]


I just do it the Yorkshire way as mentioned above. Or have made it posh and French with red wine, whole smallish onions and whole small carrots.

Being corned (i.e salt beef) means you want it cold with sandwiches maybe. I'd do a mustard and brown sugar mush and paint it thickly on (use honey or maple syrup if you prefer instead of brown sugar), do it in a roasting tin in foil or in a sealed pot. Do it on a highish heat, about an hour per pound then turn off the oven, put it on a metal dish with no cover or foil and leave it in the oven while it cools.

UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]


You're confusing posts.

Brisket is easy. Just pot roast it slowly, use a decent amount of water, add potatoes and veg mid way through and finish with the lid off. Turn it a few times. It should be falling apart when it's done.

Law / Becoming a landlord in Poland. [16]


I wouldn't trust the stats from PL and London has been fighting homelessness for centuries; fortunately the weather is milder and far fewer freeze to death than in Warsaw every year.

In summer, the woods near me on the banks of the Vistula are full of people sleeping rough.


They were probably sheltering somewhere, not that people without a home wear a badge to say they're homeless or are all visible alkies.

UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]


Which accounts of maybe 1% of it.

Did you think the factories lovingly handle the pigs entrails? And even home made is still preserved meat, usually with added chemicals.

It's no accident that stomach cancer rates are so high in Poland, Czech and parts of Germany.


99% if it is commercial.

The rosy-cheeked maiden in the Kossak painting eats Vifon noodles nowadays, with Berlinki, bottled mayonnaise, 'chleb' Baltonowski and processed cheese.

Law / Becoming a landlord in Poland. [16]


That's sad enough to see. Warsaw is a problem for housing; the city has sold off social housing and yet the numbers of homeless grow despite the high winter death rate.

There should be more wet hostels especially since drinkers aren't going to easily stop. About przytulaki, many now have permanent or semi-permanent residents thus reducing the possibilities for rough sleepers.


I'd say the numbers are huge in PL of people in that situation.

Law / Becoming a landlord in Poland. [16]

Many do.

And sleeping in the station or the top of a stairwell in a block of flats is the same thing.

Sleeping in a bed at a homeless shelter is still homelessness, as is sleeping on the floor somewhere.

UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]


Milder ones usually; taste over heat.


So little of it is, and most is quite plain.


Kielbasa.

UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]

Polish food? They sometimes add spirit vinegar since otherwise it wouldn't taste of anything at all.

Law / Becoming a landlord in Poland. [16]


More than you'd think in Warsaw. The homeless shelters are full and the station at night has a lot of homeless. In winter many freeze to death.

Plus there's a lot of "hidden homelessness" with people sleeping on sofa beds in living rooms or sharing a room with another adult to whom they're not in a relationship.

UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]


Ironic in a place where the national dishes are chemically preserved pig's entrails and cabbage boiled to a mush.

UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]


They aren't seasonal.


Makes a very nice pie.

Love / Valentines Day & Polish men [130]

So that's a no.

And a Barbie doll is a strange Valentine's gift.

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

There's another coarse expression in Polish that this relates to. It has a different meaning. The first words are "Mam to ...".

Love / Valentines Day & Polish men [130]


Is that a bad thing?

Food / Where can I find halal butchery in Warsaw? [28]


It's not popular at all. Years ago when I'd not long been in PL we went to dinner with someone who'd been on holiday in Greece. He made moussaka. Just before serving it he said "it's made with lamb but don't worry because I've cooked it for so long that you won't be able to taste anything"!

I've done shoulder of lamb (usually pot roasted with potatoes in the pot to soak up the fat) a few times for Poles and it's almost always gone down well. One person (a farmer from the countryside) refused to eat it in horror. The same person does eat raw pork though...


Barnsley chops are definitely for a rare treat for that reason but any decent lamb is so hard to come by that I'd buy a few and freeze them.

Food / Where can I find halal butchery in Warsaw? [28]


Those rules are different although there are similarities.

The trouble is finding lamb in Poland, a country where the meat is generally of poor quality and where there are almost no butchers shops.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

The hypothesis about a lab leak due to careless handling isn't a conspiracy theory.

Anything else (like falsely suggesting it was deliberate or that vaccines contain 'nanobots' which someone here was dribbling out) is a conspiracy theory.

Food / Where can I find halal butchery in Warsaw? [28]

If you can do some Barnsley Chops (double lamb chop with the bone in the middle) I'm interested.

Poland doesn't have much lamb, doesn't have many butchers (a meat shop isn't the same) and they don't know their job.

If you can do some, I'll come and stock up my freezer.

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News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

You're mixing up posts from different threads.


The one you oppose so strongly on your Facebook page.


That's all you think about. You think about it more than Liberace (who you resemble) and Rock Hudson (who gave you a boner back when you could still get them)

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


A mixture of believing film and tv,, magical thinking from too much religion and very poor education for their proletariat.


Grifters the lot of them, and of course they use persuasion techniques flagrantly.