News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


They chased the French out of their country... and followed them across the Mediterranean to France, because many, many, many Algerians prefer French to Algerian rule.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


twaróg, crumbly.... I prefer the savory version with bits of skwarki

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


You have a deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, debt before the people of all Ukraine... to get out of Ukraine and to leave them alone to run their country as they wish.

russia has nothing positive to offer Ukraine (or any other neighbor).

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


russia occupied Kherson and Ukraine liberated it....


Now you're getting it!

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


They don't hide it.... they publish the videos on telegram to raise money...


What is the cause that neither you nor your dwarfish little tsarek can articulate?

the cause does immeasurable damage to the cause because it is intellectually and morally bankrupt.

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


God likes hunting civilians with drones? Who knew?

x.com/Kyiv/status/1942136824505213176

russia is filth....

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


Ta un bobo so no por distinguí irlandes for di aleman.

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]


You seem to be proposing that Germany deserves more migrants than it can absorb or support because you don't like Germany...

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]


Except half of them don't work and they commit a lot more sex crimes.... apart from that.... coolio!

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


Ní chasann an domhan le buille druma amháin.
An rud atá ceart duitse, b'fhéidir nach bhfuil sé ceart do chuid daoine.

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

This seems as good a place as any to put this....

x.com/Lou_obrien19/status/1945228568692199553

x.com/Telegraph/status/1945077170042225054

Let's look at some numbers...

x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1945471745387008140

So theyr'e expensive, don't work much and far more likely to be inbred and commit sexual assaults than other migrants...

How is this sustainable?

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


Cad atá á rá agat, a Willis?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Yes!

My source: A great twitter account about regional vocabulary in Polish

x.com/Swietlan/status/1945219833395659258

Apparently in some other regions the same expression is used for noodles and white cheese....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Not a canonical ingredient though some might add it...

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]


The "invitation" was for Syrians, only a small majority of those who arrived were Syrian... I remember when they were in Budapest and a Syrian said only about 10 percent or so were actually Syrian (judging from language/accents).

If you're from Bangladesh or Iraq then you're not Syrian....

Unfortunately interpreters were legally forbidden from telling government officials that a person wasn't speaking Syrian Arabic...

High trust society - meet Low trust grifters....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


No. It's a regional name for a dish that is very well-known in Poland (by a name that's different from how it's known internationally or in its country of origin) ... and one of my favorites when it's done well.

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]


German's don't do balanced middle ground... they charge in one direction until they hit a brick wall (and they keep trying to go in the same direction even then).

Hard to believe the guy who came up with thesis/antithesis/synthesis was German because that plays so little a role in the way things are done....

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


NO THANK YOU!!!!!

brrrrrrrrrrr

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Yes. It's a regional name for a well known dish in Poland.

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


Nah.... I like American English just fine but I have little (or no) feelings toward "English" as an abstract entity... and overuse robs it of precision and clarity (both of which are needed for richness and nuance).

A particular variety of English can be nuanced but at an international level.... it doesn't work.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


You don't know what you're talking about.

Now a regional one I just learned....

What is duck food ?

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


And 'emphasizes' is, in fact, the more correct spelling. The online Cambridge lists it first (giving 'emphasise' as a British variant)

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/emphasize?q=emphasise

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


Calling bvllshit.... I've never heard of Poles liking food in America (most of which has a chemical, processed taste). I was speaking with a young woman who visited family (I had warned her about the food). She complained my warnings weren't extreme enough for the ghastly reality...

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


Then why have they targeted so many civilian locations? They haven't had so much success because of Ukrainian alerts and air defenses but surely Bucha should have been a clue as to their goals...

Not to mention this oldie but goodie...

x.com/ne_vluchiv/status/1877711234922865117/video/1

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


Esp civilians.... like a said, a death cult.... no pretense that anything worthwhile is being accomplished, just death...

And you wonder why I despise the russian socio-political system?

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


I was young and dumb then and didn't realize that for the russian government human life has no value whatsoever.... I know better now.

I have no idea how it will end but it's already done massive damage to Ukraine and arguably even worse damage to russia - which seems more and more like a death cult....

Not even your god-king tsar can explain what he's trying to accomplish and has long ago stopped even trying... your own explanations - nonsense about russia's place in the sun made minus sense.

What's the russian goal now? How many lives is that worth?

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


then why do most russians live in such crappy conditions?

Oh yeah... that's right, your rotten government steals it all.... and you don't even mind.

Incroyable!

Travel / Transport adventures in Poland [105]


If Europe went to completely net zero it would have almost no effect at the global level....

When western European governments talk about that it's pure clout chasing.... they're not inconvenienced by their addlebrained idiotic policies and they don't care if it takes you 20 hours to get home as long as they can preen about how much they caaaaare.

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


Governments are collective projections of 'ordinary people'... cases of mismatch don't last long (see the PRL) while the russian kleptocratic thugocracy has stayed the same for hundreds of years, chaning labels but not structure.

I don't believe the fairytale about bad governments repressing good people for hundreds of years....

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]


It doesn't work like that.

Poles mostly hated the soviet system (like Czechs, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Balts etc)

russians were okay with it.

I had a friend who'd been in the Peace Corps and one of the first things they told recruits was "if it's not already happening, you're not going to make it happen". That is, you can only help people do things they already want to do and/or are already trying to do, some outsider there for a year or two isn't going to change and make safe drinking water or education or being hooked up to an electrical grid a priority for them.

I'd love to see russians junk their crap tsar and oligarch system but they like it and think Poles should like it too and are prepared to not care if millions of Poles are killed in an effort to make them like it.